When Did We Start Pronouncing it “EE-RON”?

Isn't education wonderful. Muz lim...mooz lim.

Who says "ee-ron"?

I just say eye-orn, like: "do you have enough eye-orn in your diet?"

The BBC has pronounced it correctly, maybe the American media decided to copy them. It's not EE-ron anyway, the E sound is shorter.

My Persian friends all say “ee-Ron” is the correct one, so that’s how I say it.

Eva Longwhore-ia corrected Seth Meyers on his pronunciation of Cannes. She made it light and sort of a joke. I suppose Meyers can pronounce it correctly but does not, in order to appeal to the broadest audience. My take is that Cannes comes up enough in anglophone pop culture one might just as well pronounce it the French way. Unlike Paris, which should be pronounced in the traditional English way.

Only uneducated hicks say "Eye-ran".

I say ih-RAHN and ih-ROCK. Not "ee."

eye-RAN and eye-RACK are very Returdlican.

The same people who call Iran "Eye-ran" also call Italians "Eye-tal-yuns."

I've obviously been watching too many John Waters films.

Of course something like "ee-RON" is more correct, just as is something like "ee-RAQ" for Iraq. But military people and those linked to them almost always use the "EYE-ran," "EYE-rack" pronunciations. I heard some Navy spokesman just a minute ago talking about the fucking drone and saying "Eye-ran" (and "Eye-rain-ian") the whole time.

How did PT Barnum have people pronounce his fabulous estate in Bridgeport, CT - Iranistan.

And call Hawaii "high-wah-yu"

Flock of Seagulls has obviously had more detrimental effects on society than ever imagined.

And everyone I know from Iran pronounces it "ee-rahn" and calls themselves Persian.

I am amused how Americans pronounce ERA

Emphasis on the "ee"

EYE raq ?

I believe the American term is "towel-head".

Exactly, R5.

30 years ago or so in grad school, I had a Japanese roommate who taught me a fair bit of her language, and how to pronounce many Japanese names. So when I went home to my sleepy Southern town for the summer, I went fragrance shopping at our local department store. I'd been wearing Guerlain's Mitsouko since I was a college freshman, and asked the perfume lady for the edp atomizer of Mitsouko (using my newfound Authentic Japanese Pronunciation). Snooty Perfume Lady looked at me like I had two heads. I repeated my request, and the light went on in her eyes. She looked down her nose at me and drawled, "Oh, yew mean "Mitt-SEEUW-kao!" I just signed and said "Yes, please."

That's when I quit doing that NPR correspondent shit. Just say it the way the locals say it.

Yes infidel r18

So how do you pronounce Mitsouko correctly in Japan, r19?

Pretty much ever since Ca-tárre became Cutter

Americans can’t pronounce Melbourne correctly

Or Nee-shayr became...

It's Persia.

Pronounced Peer-SEE-ah,

Same time we started saying Ee-talian instead of Eye-talian. But you do you, bro.

I wouldn't use naval officer/government agent pronunciation as a basis for determining correct pronunciation. There are gobs of people in the government who mispronounce 'nuclear' as 'nucUlar'. GW Bush included.

ear ON

No, let's talk about the MOSLEM militants.

I'VE GOT TO HAVE THIS DISCUSSION. Can I have a rehearsal? I DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE TO DO HERE.

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Apple’s new iRan

[quote]Americans can’t pronounce Melbourne correctly

Yet we have no problem with that township in NJ where Short Hills is located.

"Flock of Seagulls has obviously had more detrimental effects on society than ever imagined."

It was that hair.

No good could ever come of it.

R19 Meet-so-ooh-koh

I distinctly remember years ago Christianne Amanpour tutoring her viewers on how to pronounce Iran. She said I RAN. Blame her.

R35 Lol! What a fake bitch

The actual Iranian pronunciation is somewhere between Ee-Rawn and Eh-Rawn

And many people in Israel pronounce Bibi's last name as Ne-TAHN-ya-hoo. Personally I hope to live to see the day they pronounce it "CONVICT".