White House upset over copy of Bush speech posted to U.N. website
White House upset over copy of Bush speech posted to U.N. website
Press secretary Dana Perino downplayed the incident, and said phonetic spellings are used to help interpreters. Asked if the president has trouble pronouncing some country's names, Perino deemed it "an offensive question." picked by dollyllama 1 year ago
tags speech bush president phonetic free speech question
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 ImNotBlu...
1 year ago
Here are the phonetic names (according to the article):

• Kyrgyzstan [KEYR-geez-stan]
• Mauritania [moor-EH-tain-ee-a]
• Harare [hah-RAR-ray]
• Mugabe [moo-GAH-bee]
• Sarkozy [sar-KO-zee]
• Caracas [kah-RAH-kus]

I'm surprised by Perino's reaction... seems like this isn't a big deal at all. I'd have done the same if I was giving the speech... I'd rather have the phonetics written down, than say the wrong name.
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 dollylla...
1 year ago
The President and alleged Yale Graduate can't pronounce Caracas? Gimme a break.
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