Why Have MSNBC Anchors Decided to Pronounce Qatar “Cutter”?

They are fucking idiots. I worked there for about 3 months a few years ago and NO ONE there pronounces it cutter.

All the channels pronounce it cutter. They have been for years.

Listen.

that's exactly the way i say it

R3 that's wrong - many of those are incorrect. I would believe the people who actually live there. The MSNBC people are probably watching that misinformed video as well.

R3 go look at the comments on that youtube video

I say it like guitar but with a c

People are blasting away people who pronounce it cutter. GED dropouts say cutter.

Maybe they should give it the fancy BBC "Dakarrrrrrhhh" pronunciation.

They've been pronouncing it "cutter" since the first Gulf War.

They're the same people who say NEE-GAH-RHAG-WAH and BAR-THE-LO-NA.

“Cutter” or ka’ta’r. Is Correct, you are the white trash op.

Wrong R12 but cute try (you can pronounce that cutt-e if you prefer )

I thought it was "Ka-TAR" until the first Gulf War told me otherwise.

Also, how long have military guys been shouting "Hoo-yah". Never saw it in any war movies about Vietnam or WWII.

I call it that shithole in the middle East

I've been there. I heard it more of a guttural g-c sound at the beginning.

it thought it was qawrr-tar?

Americans can't do the "hock a loogie" sound so common to many of the world's languages (Arabic, Dutch, etc.)

[quote] “Cutter” or ka’ta’r. Is Correct, you are the white trash op.

This.

Which leads me to wonder how many here who denigrate 'white trash' are actually white trash themselves. All?

R4, brava!😅

R13, elegant ZING. Zing elegance. Got a WW from me. Comeback extraordinaire.

Didn't we have this out here years ago with the pronunciation of Iran and Israel?

The one that made me realize how stupid the media really was when reporters started referring to our far away planet as "Youriniss". It's always been "Youranus" but because there's a joke about it in the blockbuster film E.T., news outlets deemed it necessary to change the pronunciation. Over a fantasy film, mind you.

One that always makes me cringe is when journalist or announcers put the accent on the first syllable of "detail". It was always pronounced correctly long ago as "details @ 11". Not dee'-tails. Someone from Madonna country confided in me on a flight to L.A. that people could tell she was lower class because she pronounced her city as "Dee'-troit". A tidbit flashback to when someone pronounces Detroit as the aforementioned.

Eye-ran.

Ete-rack.

Cutter.

The BRRRRRRONCOS!

TAHMPAH BEH!

I had a good view of your anus from cattarh.

Stop attempting to debase the citizen population of the US. You may be bitter with the Trump election, understandable, as most of us are but stop throwing our entire population under the bus R18. Most Americans can't speak fluent French properly. I'll save my nitpicking for those in Quebec who cannot.

Well. Which is correct?

Who are you people? Cutter is exactly how it is pronounced in Arabic. That is the correct pronunciation.

R1, you are a liar and an idiot.

R26 People living in Qatar pronounce it Kuh-TAR (not exactly, but close). You can also go to the Wikipedia page, and click the little 'listen' icon at the top. There are 2 pronunciations. Neither of which is cutter. The 2nd pronunciation is most common.

R27 knows not of which he speaks

All of you need to get laid.

Come here, and I'll help you pronounce it.

r30 check!

دولة قطر dawlat qatar(I think the t at the end of dawl-aa is silent) The way it's written in arabic is "Ccuter", emphasis on the c, which is pronounced like the heavy "q" that sounds like phlegm stuck in your throat. Dawlat means rich or money. I think a Qat-aar is a sword.

I fucked a few egyptians and one algerian. good times!

Cum here

Relative of mine lived there for many years and is highly degreed in his field. He pronounces it “cutter”.

Dawlat Qatar means the State of Qatar, T is silent at the end of Dawlat. Dawlat means wealth, money, power I guess.

I guess the anchors are trying to be more authentic but please god, don't let them make the phlegm noise. They won't be able to make it anyway.

R36, that seriously sounds like a "Sure, Jan" moment. Does he also have "lots of Qatari friends?"

“Highly degreed in his field” = watched a documentary

Cool documentary video

Sorry, Qat-aar means sword, cutting implement in Urdu.

OP, no one at MSNBC would ever be considered white trash. You're really grasping.

Unlike Faux News, most of the on-air people at MSNBC are highly educated, some have actually worked for former White House administrations, while other MSNBC contributors are experts in their fields, people such as terrorism expert Malcolm Nance.

I wonder what the combined IQ is of all the Faux News 'journalists'?

Welcome Back, Cutter!

Great song, The Cutter.

I saw a Keffiyeh-clad Arab diplomat on TV (maybe from Qatar) pronouncing it "cutter."

R43, killing it😂

No R8 he loathes most of them. Called them barbaric tribal goat herders who got lucky as hell. They invest nothing towards their own education system, infrastructure, charitable endeavors. They hire westerners to work there because they can’t and are lazy as fuck. They also abuse and imprison their servants from Asian/African countries.

R39 actually he served in the navy first then spent many years in school.

I was almost queen of Qutar!

I thought it was more like "Cut Her"!

as i said above, it is

I love their bug spray!

The way to know how a country pronounces its name is to call their Embassy in Washington, DC or Consulate in New York and listen closely to how the person answering says the name. End of story.

and what did you discern from your calls R52?

R52, I just dialed the Embassy (202-274-1600), the female voice said kuh-TAR.

The only way I could convince a friend that Ralph's name isn't law-REN, was to have him call their Executive Office, where they announced "Ralph LAW-ren."

Qatar Airways pronounces it properly as "kott-r", and they ought to know. Honestly, people who rhyme it with "guitar" sound like such rubes.

For people who say cutter, how do you pronounce Qatari then? Cuttery?

I've always heard kuh-TAR-ay

Cutter is exactly how you pronounce it in Arabic

R59 no dear, please see r54 and the numerous other correct posts.

It's like the idiots who pronounce Quebec as Ka-beck. I quickly and quietly decided it was quaint and went on a quantum quest.

I have been pronouncing it ka-TAR even though everyone else seemed to be pronouncing it otherwise.

But then I also pronounce Moscow as MOS-coe (as opposed to MOS-COW)

Spare us the Cutter...pronunciation.

nnnnn

they're muslims, they circumcise, so they're cutters

R61 knows that giving English examples for comparison is a spurious argument, but pretends not to care.

[quote]Maybe they should give it the fancy BBC "Dakarrrrrrhhh" pronunciation.

You mean NPR.

R51, R50 & especially R55. Little sharp pains in torso wall, right under the lungs from laughing😂 so hard. Live forever!

Bwah R61. Though nothing is funnier trying to give a grateful WW only to realize you've FF'd, argued with them 'til blue in the face, called them every name in the book on another thread😅

Don't ever change on me, DL because there is nothing richer than that epiphany. Love you here, though not there

I refuse to call a country Cutter.

ka-TAR sounds so much better. It's ka-TAR, dammit!

we just call them shitholes

It sound like they're pronouncing it: Gutter

The name of a country cannot be Gutter (or Cutter), but especially Gutter.

Let's just agree on ka- TAR

you can "agree" to call it whatever you want, (how about "Lil Tex"?), but I figure the folks in Qatari can call their country whatever the fuck they want and are unlikely to give a shit what you think.

Correct pronunciation = kuTAR. I work in the UN, have Qatari friends and have attended more than one event at the Qatari Embassy in Geneva. At one, in fact, the fabulous Lebanese singer, Sabah, appeared. Had to pinch myself.

But, yeah, kuTAR

Why is it changed now, though? All of a sudden, everyone has been mispronouncing it? I assumed news companies would be on top of that kind of thing as a basic part of their production. Then again, I thought books still had active editors, so what do I know?

Thank you r74. Of course, you could be a caftan-clad flyover trolling random threads, but I chose to believe you.

R62 when I trained to be a radio announcer we learned "There are no cows in Moscow and no noise in Illinois."

It didn’t sound like “cutter” in the airline commercial. It sounded more like “kah-ter” more like a hybrid of “ka-TAR” and “cutter” to my ear.

Ain't it pronounced "KAY-duh"?

I bet the mens there have some nice Gum Cutters!

[quote]There are no cows in Moscow

There are in the one in Idaho. Both literally and pronunciation-wise.

So, it’s settled then?

The Cutter

[quote] Dawlat Qatar means the State of Qatar, T is silent at the end of Dawlat.

Why put the second T there then? It's not like it's a language that uses the Roman scripts. It's a transliteration so why bother?

My trainer is a native Arabic speaker. He pronounced it similar to “cutter” but there is a thing at the end that we don’t have in English, so while “cutter” isn’t exactly right it’s closer than the “cut-TAR” that many use.

I have heard cu-TAR as well.

It isn't cutter.

USA - kuh-TAR

UK - CUT-ter

Voilà!

R67 Thanks for the correction. I was too lazy to google it, and had incorrectly assumed she was from the BBC Newshour, which our local NRP station plays late at night.

I distinctly remember Katie Couric(when she was an NBC heavyweight) pronouncing it GUTTR with a very hard G.

At least they don't say "New Haven" to mean Yale.

I’m telling you, the native Arabic speaker I asked pronounced it similar to “cutter” or “cuT-Terhh” but not being a linguist I can’t explain the end part, sort of a breathy rotor at the end I’d say. It didn’t sound like “cut-TAR” at all when he said it. I’m surprised no native Arabic speakers here have chimed in.

If you call Qatar Airlines and the Qatar Consulate in New York, they both say Cutter.

I call it “Peaches”.

Why can’t it be Peaches?

R88, I pronounce her name "koo-RIC"

This is one of those odd DL threads where some shop bottom or high school English teacher in Flyoverstan gets all bent out of shape over some random pronunciation issue and immediately lets you know they live in constant fear of being labeled "white trash" and so their knowledge of the correct pronunciation of the name of some random middle eastern emirate is their "reason I am not white trash."

But being the curious type, I pinged a friend who works at Al-Jazeera who confirmed that "cutter" is closer to the actual Arabic pronunciation than "kuh-TAR" and that the actual Arabic pronunciation is something most Westerners can't recreate, the initial consonant (as others have mentioned) being somewhere between clearing your throat, a c and a g, with a bit of a trill at the end for the "R".

R95, ask him how he procounces “Peaches”.