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Old Jul 22, 2022 | 4:15 am
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Originally Posted by FlyingScientist
The American mispronunciations of stations of the Doha metro in the announcements on the train are quite annoying...
But the aim is to make the name of the stop recognisable to visitors, so they employ a spoken version based on how most visitors might attempt to pronounce the transliterated title of the stations.

That seems eminently sensible to me. Arabic speakers (and readers) are fully catered for in the announcement made in arabic. It might seem perverse and self-defeating to repeat the arabic version of the station name in announcements aimed at assisting visitors.
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