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Originally Posted by wowitsdark  I don't think she's IGNORANT of the correct proununciation.
I think she grew up in a region of the country where it *is* pronounced that way, so that's the way it comes naturally to her.
What IS it with the "Pok-ee-ston" pronunciation that Barak seems to do? That's one I don't get. I'm sure he didn't grow up hearing it that way, said as though he is trying to mimic a middle eastern accent. His grandparents raised him and that's certainly now how a Kansan says PAK-I-STAN.
It's not worth picking over... I'm just saying that they all have speech idiosyncracies. Doesn't change the fact that I plan to vote on the issues that matter to me. |
As I said earlier, it doesn't matter how many people around you mispronounce a word like library or nuclear, it is not acceptable to say libary or nucular. People do it because they are ignorant of the correct pronunciation.
Didn't notice anything odd about the way Obama pronounces Pakistan. I don't know that everybody needs to sound like they came from Kansas. I mean no offense, but, Kansas isn't known as the cultural capitol of the world.
My mom was from Boston, my dad from Wisconsin and I have a Southern drawl. I even had a British accent for a couple of years. We're all products of our environments.