bush’s UN speech, complete with phoenetic pronounciations was accidentally posted online. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070925/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_bush_phonetics
yeah “accidentally”. if i worked at the UN and had a copy of the speech i’d “accidentally” post it online too, so everyone can laugh.
“It included phonetic spellings for French President Nicolas Sarkozy (sar-KO-zee), a friend, and Zimbabwe leader Robert Mugabe (moo-GAH-bee), a target of U.S. human rights criticism.”
seriously…how else would you pronounce those names?!?!?!?! later in the article, the countries, i can sort of understand – at least help with kyrgyzstan is helpful, not so much the other 2. but those names? there aren’t even any silent letters in those names!!