Re: OT: baloney and cheese

It wasn't until I figured out the politics of the Iran-Contra affair that I
was for sure able to tell them apart.  Probably a year or two after the Gulf
War (which happened when I was 10-11 years old, so I'm allowed a bit of
confusion I think).  I still have trouble with some of the other countries
in the area.

Question: here (and in most of the places I've lived) there's a difference
between the "a" sound in Iran and Iraq.  The first sounds like the a in
"all" and the second like the a in "back" (which is why it's not really hard
for me now to remember the differences between them; it's not like they
really sound very much alike).  I was just thinking that if the two sounds
were really the same, it'd be even harder to tell the difference in everyday
speech.

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> -----Original Message-----
> Behalf Of Andreas Johansson
>
> The one I hear most frequently (here in Sweden) is Iran vs Iraq. My mother
> regularly confuses them, and she's otherwise considered to have a
> decent grasp
> of basic geography etc. How anybody can have failed to learn to
> tell them appart
> during the last couple decades is beyond me, but she's certainly
> not unique in
> this respect.
>
>                                                               Andreas
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