its BAGdad not bagDAD condi...get it right

[greenbriar]

watching her last week before we lost cable, I was constantly irritated by her speaking


does she not get the normal nuances and inflections ???

[xultar]

1. I hate it when people say I-RACK....that kills me.

[bonito]

2. She's got Badgab n/t

[earthlover]

3. too work for Bush....

....you have to have everything ass-backwards.

[Chief]

4. Spelling...

Actually, it's Baghdad.

[greenbriar]

6. I was not going for accuracy of spelling...I was going for phonetically

but thanks

[nam78_two]

5. I know...their pronunciations really grate on me

Eye-rack (though even Bush has mostly dropped that), Eye-ran...
sheesh
We can bomb the shit out a place, but never learn how its name is pronounced...
Trivial I guess, but it has that fingernails on slate effect on me...

[Robbien]

7. That the purpose

How about how they say demo-cRAT, putting emphasis on rat and leaving off the ic.

fingernails on a chalkboard

on purpose.

[greenbriar]

8. I know

it is just really irritating

[WatchWhatISay]

9. O-Raq

Blitzer and others say that constantly

[WinkyDink]

10. Part of the Republicans Control Reality theme, going back to "Democrat politics."

[uppityperson]

11. That's how they say it on BBC

[DavidDvorkin]

12. I've always pronounced it with the emphasis on the last syllable

That's the way I've always heard it pronounced. I don't know how Iraquis pronounce it, but I believe that Arabic, like Hebrew, tends to put the stress on a word's last syllable.

[uppityperson]

13. It's "mrbush you sorry piece of shit" not "president bush" also