IsLAHM

[Laurence Horn]

At 2:13 PM +0000 11/1/10, Charles C Doyle wrote:
>I'll bet Juan Williams says IZlum.
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>--Charlie

I'm surprised FOX News and friends haven't settled on "eye-slam" as
the official patriotic American pronunciation, as in "eye-rack" and
"eye-ran" (and the earlier "eye-talian").

LH

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>The trendy pronunciation, esp. on NPR.
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>Shows you're not a bigot.
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>JL
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