To: yoe
A lot of foreign names are mispronounced. When Augusto Pinochet Ugarte was president of Chile, I hardly ever heard his name pronounced correctly--Pea-Know-Chet--even by BBC newscasters, who usually get the names right. The same goes for Nikita Khrushchev, which is correctly pronounced khroosh-OAF.
7 posted on
11/19/2012 8:54:06 AM PST by
Fiji Hill
(Deo Vindice!)
To: Fiji Hill
BBC: Knee-Car-Ag-You-Uh
12 posted on
11/19/2012 9:09:43 AM PST by
reg45
(Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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