--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bryon Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anybody know which pronunciation is actually correct for Iraq? > eye-wrack or eee-rock?
It is "ee-wrack." I have a friend who is an "ee-ran"ian immigrant, and he is very insistant upon this. > What about Qatar? > I've always heard it as "kah-TAR", but now I'm hearing "cutter". According to dictionary.com and most news outlets, Qatar rhymes with "gutter." The first syllable is tricking, and doesn't really have an English equivalent. > While I'm at it, how about Moscow? > The talking heads all seem to like "moss-CO", rhyming with Bosco > I used to hear it pronounced "moss-COW". > I had a Russian/German-language major as a college roommate and, > IIRC, he said in actual Russian Moscow is pronounced something like > "mosk-va", and the English "moss-COW" version was > derived from the German translation, Moskao, while the "moss-CO" > pronunciation is utterly bogus. Gautam can probably answer this... if not, I have a friend who is a Russian immigrant from St. Pete's, and I'll see what he says.... Its possibly that it is a situation similary to how the correct pronunciation of "Germany" is "Deustchland" - i.e. somehow its just a completely different pronunciation in English than in Russian. JDG _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
