Originally Posted by jkoul
I always found pronouncing Kenya rather interesting. According to the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, Kenya is pronounced:
a) 'kenja
b) 'ki:nja (in the US)
So actually both pronounciations are correct. The first is correct for British English and the second for American English!
Rough Guide to Kenya (not that it is a great linguistic authority in my eyes) suggests that, ethymologically, Keen-ya is closer to the roots, although, as the book admits, it is often derided as a pretentious faux-upper-clarse effort on behalf of the people who have a misplaced fondness for a "colonial life". Not something that the Rough Guide would endorse, naturally
