Re: [lace-chat] Iraq pronunciation (2)

[Martha Krieg]

Normal American pronunciation, as far as I've ever heard, has been 
Ee-rak or Ih-rak. However, having heard Ay-rak from someone on the 
radio, we asked our daughter, who has been learning Arabic, how they 
say it in Arabic and she says that in Arabic, it's Ay-rak, with the 
letter ain... so perhaps what is happening is that the military 
spokesmen are attempting to pronounce it as the Iraqis (which I just 
mentally pronounced "Ih-rakis") say it. Don't be deceived - there can 
be many pronunciations of almost any work here in this huge country, 
and to generalize from what a few people on TV say is hazardous. Many 
of us actually do know, for instance, that the word nuclear has  KL, 
not KYUL, in the middle, in spite of what our president says.
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