Anybody know which pronunciation is actually correct for Iraq? eye-wrack or eee-rock?
What about Qatar? I've always heard it as "kah-TAR", but now I'm hearing "cutter". 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. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
