Why can't Bush pronounce sutff right?
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Its how we identify the village idiot
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timmytude- I never like Bush, but I like it when he tries to speak ENGLISH!
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I would guess, try to pronounce each letter - so there should be a T sound before the S, the I will be as in Miss, the L will be pronounced longer than a single L, than AN as in Sand.
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I'm not sure I understand what you just said. Is proper spelling and grammer not cool anymore? \n\nDat sh!t is wack yo! You gotsta talks better, dat wood be off da chain dirty! Word to yo mutha, b!tch...
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george retarded bush\n\n\nbut i don't hear him
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This is a funny topic since the Senate yesterday tripped all over itself to endorse English to the extent that it is unclear what the Senate Bill would call for at this point.\n\nFirst they voted by large majority to add to their Senate Bill that English would be the 'national' language.  Immediately afterwords, they voted by large majority that English would be a 'common and unifying language'.  (Neither one stops election or health care etc. translations into other languages.)\n\nAs to what this will mean to George Bush, by the time people figure out the intent of the law (if passed) he will be back in Texas.
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I don't know. It's in the "bushisms" book, available at your local library (they really do have it). Then you can read the quote in context. You will better understand the quote when you better understand what he 'meant to say'. Oh well, he's got two more years to work on making a comprehensible sentance.
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Because they've never been taught proper pronunciation!\n\nI say nuclear as best I can, but it's often awkward!
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There is no "correct" spelling of anything Arabic.  When translated, all Arabic words are phonetically spelled out, so when you say "Al-Qaida" or "Al-Qaeda" it sounds the same.  If you compare two maps of Iraq that are written with English letters, many of the towns will be spelled differently, but will sound the same when you say them.
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Can't help you there, George Bush in USA.
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Thats "Da Bronx"!!!!  You'se guys need to pronounce it right.
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Dogs can't pronounce "S" sounds,\nLike Chinese cant pronounce "R" sounds!
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Whats wrong with saying Mi Lo Fu? Chinese often have trouble pronouncing their r's and a few other western sounds ,that are difficult to learn without actually hearing how they are pronounced.\nWesterners have similar problems with Chinese pronunciations.Just say it in Chinese and at least you will understand it. You can always ask someone to correct your pronunciation during a conversation,whenever the opportunity arises.But however you pronounce his name,Maitreya will still  understand what you are saying.
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Fort, pronounce like court but with F at beginning.\nStanwix, pronounce like stand without the d and wix pronounce like the wick on a candle.
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'w' is silent..... pronounce is as rath as path \nfor more ease consult a dictionary(an oxford one)coz it tells u the pronounciations in both accents i.e. american and british.\nthat how i made my pronounciations better.
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Bush has requested Billions of dollars in funds for Iraq sometime ago. Most of those funds went to the military. I guess Gordon Brown wanted a fund program that is more specific to Iraq's economy.
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First, the pronunciation "nucular" is considered non-standard by Americans.  You hear about it because some prominent people have used it this way. (Bush-bashers like to act like he came up with it on his own.  They also somehow have failed to notice that Jimmy Carter --who was a nuclear engineer in the Navy!!-- has always said it that way too!  I'm also told Eisenhower said it this way.)\n\nSecond, it is 'stoopid' to assume something about someone' intelligence from their accent, regionalisms, use of 'nonstandard forms' or even outright personal mispronunciations.  There are brilliant folk who 'sound like hicks' to others of us, and people of quite "refined speech" who are dim bulbs.\n\nFinally, this sort of inversion of sounds (the linguistic term is "metathesis") is a fairly natural occurrence in languages of all sorts.  (I used to think this sort of thing was "wrong", until I studied Hebrew and learned about the regular metathesis of certain verb forms [in this case, reflected in the spelling].) There are lots of reasons for this, though perhaps the main one is that the inversion of sounds makes it much easier to pronounce.\n\nA fun example is seen in the way young children often do this, as in saying 'pisghetti' for 'spaghetti', or my own daugher's 'chicken' for 'kitchen', but adults do it too.  Some result in dialectal or nonstandard forms (e.g., saying /ax/ for the word "ask", though this is actually a very old variant, reflected in Chaucer!).  Some are widely accepted, sometimes even THE standard pronunciation (e.g., saying /comf-ter-ble/ for "comfortable".  In fact, if not for this sort of inversion we'd still be saying  'brid' rather than the (corrupted?) form 'bird', and 'thrid' instead of 'third'!  It also accounts for why we say "tornado" though the word is derived from Spanish "tronada".\n\nIn the case of 'nuclear', the ending -ular is much more common in English, and there is a tendency to adopt words to sounds and patterns elsewhere in the language.  But even more basic than that -- 'nucular' allows you to use two "back vowels" /oo/ and /uh/ (i.e., vowel-sounds made in the back of the throat), which is easier than switching to the front vowel /ee/.