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Old May 1, 2009 | 6:30 pm
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Originally Posted by alanw
You should use the pronunciation for whatever language it is you're speaking. Otherwise you look pretentious and affected, and risk being taken for an idiot.
Agree 100%.

I remember (mostly during college) being subjected to politically-correct pronunciation of Latin American place names at the same time the speakers wouldn't think of calling a European place by its local name: "I just got back from Paris (Par-iss) and Mexico (Me-hee-co)."

"Nicaragua" pronounced Ortega-style in the midst of an English phrase grates on me terribly.
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