How come evrybody in the media pronunce IRAQ as EROQ?

Question

Isnt it pretty easy to pronunce, but all I hear is E-ROQ. Is that how they pronunce it in Iraq?

Answer 1

I believe they do pronounce it that way in Iraq, which I believe is due to the phonetics of the dominant language used there. As for the media here in America, it doesn't make sense to pronounce it EROQ as IRAQ, according to English phonetics, should be pronounced IRAQ.

Answer 2

Yes. Iraq, like Iran (ee-RAHN), has letters that are pronounced one way and one way only. Pronouncing it "eye-RACK" or "eye-RAN" is incorrect.

In the names of many countries, A is pronounced AH, E is pronounced EH, I is pronounced EE, O is pronounced OH, and U is pronounced OO. The same goes for many languages, like spanish, where vowels have the same sound basically 100 percent of the time.

The major exception is in "Arabia," but that's not pronounced correctly. The people who live in the majority of the middle east are Arabs, pronounced "AIR - ubs," (though Iranians are mostly Persian, not Arab).

Answer 3

Thats the difference between the European and the American pronounce

Answer 4

Because in the Arabic alphabet, I is pronounced E.

Answer 5

Yes, that's how they pronounce it in Iraq (ee-rock). Americans usually say "eye-rack".

Answer 6

haha hell no they don't pronounce it like that over there. The media is trying to turn it into a white term.

Answer 7

Because the US is between A-ROQ and a hard place, trying to figure out what to do with the war.

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Answer 8

Because if they were smart enough to be useful they wouldn't have majored in journalism.

Answer 9

Maybe the locals pronouce it that way in their

dialect.

Answer 10

Language barrier is the reason why they can't pronounce it well...