All of the BBC presenters are pronouncing Chile with the same ending as Partay.It's quite odd.
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Quijibo Esq. BSc. May contain traces of nuts,
Tue 12 Oct 2010, 23:08,
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Why, do they normally pronounce it like the pepper?Hopefully they don't pronounce "Iraq" like a wall-mounted ocular storage unit.
/watches too much merkin news
(/watches too much merkin news
RedHouse over yonder,
Wed 13 Oct 2010, 1:37,
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Yes to the first, hell no to the second.There's no accent on the final e, therefore it's "Chilly"
( Quijibo Esq. BSc. May contain traces of nuts,
Wed 13 Oct 2010, 1:51,
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Well, in Chile, it's pronounced "Chee-lay"A lot of newsreaders in North America are learning how to pronounce country names the way they should be pronounced.
Most of the time they get "Pahk-i-stahn" and "Af-gahn-i-stahn" etc. correct now. But I still hear the "Bush" versions of "Eye-ran" and "Eye-rack" all the time, even though Obama knows the right pronunciations.
(Most of the time they get "Pahk-i-stahn" and "Af-gahn-i-stahn" etc. correct now. But I still hear the "Bush" versions of "Eye-ran" and "Eye-rack" all the time, even though Obama knows the right pronunciations.
RedHouse over yonder,
Wed 13 Oct 2010, 3:33,
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