Re: ITV News - Tehran or Tek-rahn?

gavin wrote:
"JNugent" <not.telling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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gavin wrote:

Germans say "Bayer-leen". That's three syllables.

I strongly disagree with that. I have never heard it pronounced like
that by a German.

He's probably confusing some dialect pronunciation he heard as standard
German. Nugent is usenet's self appointed linguistic expert (along with John
Dean of Oxford, who I'm convinced is the same person), but who's nearly
always wrong, sadly.


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