> It's Ear-ran.
Sabri Oncu wrote:
It is pronounced Ear-run actually not Ear-ran. Similarly, Istanbul is pronounced East-un-bull and I am yet to hear an American pronouncing my last name correctly. You Americans need to improve your pronunciation of such names. Also, stop calling what everbody else calls wrestling football and what everbody else calls football soccer. I cannot believe that you are doing such things.
Well, Sa-Bree Ohn-Kyu, 'least we Murricanz don't make a conscious effort to mess up the spelling (Livorno --> Leghorn, Napoli --> Naples, Kalicut --> Calcutta, etc.) the way them Brits done. That's why we-uns declared independence. -- Jim Devine / "Mathematics has given economics rigor, but alas, also mortis." -- Robert Heilbroner
