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Phonetic Notes For Bush's UN Speech Accidentally Released
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This post, written by Steven Reynolds, originally appeared on The All Spin Zone
They give Bush a crib sheet for pronouncing words, but they leave out the one he has most trouble with, "nuclear." What a bunch of incompetents. That is, if we take Dana Perino at her words that they've been giving Bush crib sheets all along.
I don't want Bush as a leader, but I sure as hell don't want him as a leader looking and sounding like an idiot in front of all the nations of the world. So what if they gave him a pronunciation guide for a few tough words when he spoke before the UN. So what? Well, it isn't, to my mind, that bad for them to give the guy some help on some tough words. Like these:
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]
What bugs me is the White House's Dana Perino claims this is standard practice for speeches. But is there a little pronunciation cheat sheet for the word "nuclear?" Nope, not there. Bush has been horribly mispronouncing that word for his entire life (or does he mispronouce it to make himself look "folksy?"). Has the speechwriting staff followed the Bush lead in incompetence so much that they couldn't figure that out while carrying out a practice of providing pronunication guides, supposedly, all along?
"Nucular" is not a word.
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