- aboo greb
- aboo gah-reb
- aboo gobb
- aboo gah-rabe
- aboo gah-reeb
- aboo gabe
- aboo grabe
- aboo grob
And my personal favorite: - aboo gobby
11 May 2004
Mr. Pronunciation Wanker Goes to Washington.
Less than three hours into the senate hearings on the abuses at Abu Ghraib, and I can bring you this completely trivial note: I have already heard nine ways to pronounce the prison's name:
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Wait, back up, did I miss the memo about settling the Iraq question? Is it W's rurl-sounding Eye-rack? Eh-rock?
I have no informed opinion on the real question at hand, mostly because I am too busy trying to imagine how it would be pronounced in the "obben globby" sounding language spoken by a group of girls at my middle school, adding extra inter-syllabic syllables as a sort of primitive verbal encryption device.
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A college girlfriend who lived in the Aramco oil company neighborhood of Dharan taught me that the correct pronunciation of "Iran" is "ih-RONN" (with a short "i" sound). So I've always assumed that Iraq is "ih-ROCK." And I snobbily roll my eyes at any other pronunciation in this nookyular age. Just axe my wife.
And while I don't know "obben globby," I do remember "ubby dubby" from Zoom, and I just have to take a stab at the prison name in that language:
Ubbabubbu Ghrubbaib.
Niiiiiiiiiiice.
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