Nicaragua

[Barbara Need]

>Barbara Need wrote:
>
>>  >The sound spelled "g" in Spanish somewhat resembles the sound spelled
>>  >with the same letter in Dutch. Otherwise, the pronunciation of
>>  >Nicaragua in English is only trivially distinct from its
>>  >pronunciation in English. How does an English-speaker pronounce
>>  >"Nicaragua" in such a way as to sound pretentious?
>>
>>  How about the British, [nI-k at -ra-gju-a]?
>
>Pretentious, moi?
>--
>Michael Quinion

Sorry. An American saying this is pretentious. (I also consider the
pronunciation of _Jaguar_ with three syllables to be
pretentious--especially in a TV ad on American TV.)

Barbara