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Gen. Aoun on TV now, saying "the responsibility lies with the government."

Jesus H. Christ.  There are people shooting RPGs in the streets, and these assholes are too busy blaming each other to stop it.

by the stormy present (stormypresent aaaaaaat gmail etc) on Thu May 8th, 2008 at 01:35:30 PM EST
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Someone needs to tell the Al Jazeera English anchor how to pronounce Gen. Aoun's surname.  He keeps calling him "General Ai-yoon."
by the stormy present (stormypresent aaaaaaat gmail etc) on Thu May 8th, 2008 at 01:40:53 PM EST
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that's how they say it on BBC as well. How should it be said ?

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Thu May 8th, 2008 at 01:55:15 PM EST
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Hmmm, that's interesting, BBC World usually gets it pretty close to right.

The name is really only one syllable, with a first sound that's very hard for English-speakers to pronounce, sort of an AAA in the back of your throat, and the change between that sound and the OON that follows is what makes some people give it two syllables.  So it's sort of exactly the way it looks:  AAOUN.  Or maybe AOWN.  Or AAOON.  But that first sound is hard to describe in writing.

by the stormy present (stormypresent aaaaaaat gmail etc) on Thu May 8th, 2008 at 02:08:11 PM EST
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always remember BBC saying AH-oon

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Thu May 8th, 2008 at 02:27:33 PM EST
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Probably the easiest way to approximate it is "crown" without the "cr."
by the stormy present (stormypresent aaaaaaat gmail etc) on Thu May 8th, 2008 at 02:13:15 PM EST
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