pronunciations:

[Anthony Grant]

Azerbaydzhan is sometimes so spelt, which may inspire people to do "AzerbayZHAHN".  Chalabi is a name of Turkish origin.  Turkish has 'ch' and most forms of Arabic don't BUT some forms of Iraqi Arabic can have it as an allophone of palatalised /k/ and thereafter in loans form Persian, Turkish and English.  

BolSHWAH is fabulous.  Of course the great Leonard Bloomfield (I think, or was it Otto Jespersen?( was complaining decades ago about people pronouncing tete-a-tete as /tejtejtej/.  I have heard Oh-Sah-Geh, with velar plosive /g/, for "Osage", and Feer-stain for the surname of Harvey Fierstein.  I myself thought there was a Coast Salishan language called /ki:no:/ until someone corrected me as to the true pronunication of Quinault.  

That pseudo-gallicising pronunciation is far from dead is attested by a recent experience of my own.  I've done work on a mythical language for a Major Motion Picture and some of the words I created contained a post-alveolar affricate.  I sent dialogue along in both written and taped form and the blasted actors STILL managed to pronounce words containing these as if they were 'sh's.  

Anthony

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