 Eye-raq or Eee-raq , that is the question...., Even Bush gets it right! |
| Hellfighter |
 03/23/06 9:32am
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Major General  Group: {MOB} Posts: 2111 Joined: November 15th 2005 From: Quebec, Canada Member No.: 1424 Xfire: hellfighter1x  |
Ok, a bit of a lighter thread for this forum.
Yesterday while watching Bush give a highly unusual solid performance at a televised talk with military families [down to earth and no bravado] a student speaker from the audience stood up to ask the Prez a question.....about "...Eye-raq..... blah blah?" It was pretty funny when Bush responded; he said Eee-raq and Eee-ran a few times and he put emphasis on the words obviously in an attempt to educate the speaker and others into pronouncing it correctly. My question is why do alot of Americans like to say Eye-raq and Eye-ran? In the 80s hostage crisis, nobody said Eye-ran - this seems to be a recent 'phenomenom' .... it's like it would be goofy to say, Eye-ndia, or Eye-ndiana. If you don't have an answer let's have a poll to see who here actually says Eye-raq. At least pronounce it like us Canucks.... Eh-raq, Eh-ran....>joke  --------------------   |
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| Hellfighter |
04/21/06 8:32am
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Major General Group: {MOB} Posts: 2111 Joined: November 15th 2005 From: Quebec, Canada Member No.: 1424 Xfire: hellfighter1x |
Actually my point was Bush was going out of his way it seemed to point out to that audience questioner how to properly pronounce EEE-RAQ...lol,
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| holden_caulfield |
04/23/06 8:25am
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Second Lieutenant  Group: Forum Member Posts: 211 Joined: February 2nd 2005 From: silicon valley Member No.: 1051 |
A bouple of good and humorous books on pronunciation are by Charles Elster:
Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations There Is No Cow in Moscow and Other Beastly Mispronunciations He addresses the Iraq and and Iran and Bush is right. Iran = ear-AHN Iraq = ear-AHK Now if only someone can get him to correct "nukular." |
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Hellfighter Eye-raq or Eee-raq , that is the question.... 03/23/06 9:32am
pezking I call it Eye-rack and Eye-ron. 03/23/06 9:56am HammaTime
At least pronounce it like us Canucks.... Eh-raq,... 03/23/06 10:18am CommanderChoth Well all I know is that Eye-Rock. 03/23/06 1:42pm Bargod Why is everybody other than me so stupid? It... 03/23/06 2:51pm pezking I say it your way too... :D 03/23/06 3:36pm Silver well I say eyerak, eyeron
in buffalo we pronounce... 03/23/06 4:26pm
HammaTime I actually got to thinking about this more today .... 03/23/06 5:03pm pezking You say tomato, I say apple. What's the diffe... 03/23/06 5:17pm Hellfighter You say tomato, I say apple. What's the diff... 03/23/06 6:18pm dienamic erm, not that it matters, but remember when Bush S... 03/30/06 1:32am Hellfighter erm, not that it matters, but remember when Bush ... 03/30/06 7:14am dienamic could be. At any rate, I am sure great disrespect ... 03/30/06 10:33am Cross of Iron people from around the world that speak English pr... 03/30/06 11:01am Hellfighter people from around the world that speak English p... 03/30/06 10:00pm Cross of Iron Mr Hell are looking for a bunch of fives in the mu... 04/01/06 1:50pm Hellfighter Mr Hell are looking for a bunch of fives in the m... 04/01/06 8:22pm Spectre Lets face pretty much any1 could give a speech bet... 04/20/06 11:42pm Hellfighter A bouple of good and humorous books on pronunciat... 05/09/06 7:14pm |
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