On Nov 5, 2006, at 9:36 PM, ravi wrote:
At around 5/11/06 7:59 pm, Jim Devine wrote:
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.
Well, to be fair after 15+ years I still am learning American and
how to
pronounce it, and it is a language that is pretty close to a
language I
know (English) ;-) whereas eastern languages are unknown to Americans.
Turkish isn't too much like any other languages, is it?
Doug
