Such pronunciations as "Eye-rack" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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>
> Near the beginning of Kathy Reichs's newish mystery novel _206 Bones_
(NY:
> Scribner, 2009) occurs this sentence:  "He said _Quee-beck_ with the
disgust
> one might reserve for 'Eye-rack' or 'Dar-four'" (p. 16).
>
> I must confess, I don't know what the "approved" pronunciation of
"Darfur" is.
> Is there much colloquial discourse about Darfur??
>

Is the hyper-sensitive pronunciation "Dar-fuhr"?

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