Re: Probability of Article Replacement?

Joseph Fatula wrote:
> Unless I'm greatly mistaken, IKEA is never pronounced /'ajki:r/ in the US,
'we'==Australians. Sorry if there was any confusion. And Australian, by
virtue of being non-rhotic, pronounces it /ai"kI@/ and rhymes it with
'beer' and 'idea'.

> nor it is /Ikaja/.  I've only heard /aj'kia/.
'ick-aya' was meant to represent something like /Ikei@/, but I don't
trust myself to write American phonemes correctly.

But it seems the American who works at their IKEA had an odd pronunciation.

Tristan.