Re: OFF-TOPIC: Misspoken... Sort Of

>>Just curious, how do people say 'Iraq'? I say [ir\ak]. And 'Qatar'? I say
>>[k@'tar\]. People on CNN say [air\&k] or [ir\&k] and [k&tar\], and you have
>>to wonder, why hasn't anyone ever bothered to correct them?
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>I say [I'r`A:k] and [ka'tA:r`], but then I'm Swedish.
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[Ir\ak] and [k@tA:] here I think.... I'm not very good at writing down
things in SAMPA or IPA or whatever. Whenever I hear [air\ak] I think
"american", or, more specifically, "Bush".