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BTW, Georgie Pie is back at CENTCOM this morning.
He now calls it "KAH-tar". Whatever happened to "Gutter"?

These mediots....sheesh....I keep waiting for one of them to refer to troops' uniforms as "costumes".

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"... Georgie Pie is back at CENTCOM this morning.
He now calls it "KAH-tar". Whatever happened to "Gutter"? "

I saw an explanation of this. There are three different pronunciations of Qatar.
A classical arabic (KAH-tar), a common 'local' pronunciation (GUT-ter), and modern commercial (ka-TAR).