How do you pronounce Iran?

[Chemisse]

Poll question: How do you pronounce Iran?

What is the best, most respectful, and authentic way to pronounce this? I seem to be hearing it all ways.

[lpbk2713]

ee-rahn

(while slightly rolling the 'r')


... accent on the second syllable.

[CountAllVotes]

2. yes, that is right!

:kick:

[Cleita]

6. Yes, I used to work with Persians. n/t

[asjr]

11. I love their rugs.

[Tesha]

21. And don't forget to roll the R a little. (NT)

[TahitiNut]

16. Yup.

[dipsydoodle]

23. That's perfectly correct

if you're english, lol , can't speak for the USA.

[alfredo]

27. That's it.

[CountAllVotes]

1. It is prononunced "Eron"

E as the letter "e" and "ron" as in "my name is Ron" just FYI. I used to to know some folks from there btw and that is why I happen to know.


:)

:dem:

[SoCalDem]

3. EEE-Ron

That's the way Iranians pronuounce it. Lame Americans love to mispronounce names. It's an affront, and it shows that they cannot be bothered with a simple thing such as saying the name correctly. Like the DemocRAT senator/congressperson.whatever..

How would a Texan like it if people insited on saying the name as TEExus, or if people called it GeorGEEyuh, or OOHtah.

[Canuckistanian]

5. It's like people who say EYE-talian

It grates on my nerves. To me it sounds like the speaker is an uneducated redneck.

[Joe the Revelator]

12. Lets not make this a "dumb" American thing. I've known PLENTY of people from other countrys who

pronounce American words differently then we pronounce them. I've never taken it as an "affront". I've taken it as we all have different accents and say thing differently in order to keep the flow of conversation moving.

[Spider Jerusalem]

15. You mean 'English words', no?

American isn't a language.

[Joe the Revelator]

17. No, I mean words with a clear American prononciation like:

Georgia, Virginia, Texas, Washington etc.

[Spider Jerusalem]

20. No, you don't.

There's a 'Washington' in West Sussex in England (where George's family came from); another in Tyne and Wear (formerly County Durham). It's English, not 'American' (and my great-grandmother, who was from Louisville, Kentucky, always said 'Warshington'...Kentucky is American, as far as I know). Georgia, also English (Named for George I of England); Virginia, English (named for Elizabeth I, 'the Virgin Queen')...and Georgia and Virginia don't have a 'clear American pronunciation' either; Southerners, especially older Southerners, are more likely to say 'Jawjuh' and 'Vuhginya', with the R not pronounced. Given the regional dialect variations of just AMERICAN English talking about 'clear American pronunciation' is just silly.

[Joe the Revelator]

22. I'm not talking about historical prononciations. I'm talking about how Americans pronounce words

within their geography and how a person coming from another country or as you so astutely demonstrate a different region will pronounce it wrong based on their own accent. This is not an "affront" as the OP of the sub-thread would like to make it out to be.

[dipsydoodle]

25. I think everything got fucked up

when some wit decided to produce an American version of the Complete Oxford Dictionary.

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. Persia.

The two possible names for this country are Iran and Persia; ... The name Persia was the official name of Iran in the Western world before 1935.
..............Wiki

[Cleita]

7. They do call their language Pharsi. n/t

[Chemisse]

8. Thanks!

I was so afraid I was saying it like Bush did, without even knowing it. I remember when he used to call Saddam Hussein 'sad DAM'. It was so Bush league.

[Obamanaut]

9. Correctly. nt

[louis-t]

10. I've known this since 1971, since I went to school

with a girl who was from there. She insisted that she was "Persian". Easier word to pronounce for idiot
Americans. When I was in grade school, I told people I was from Syria because the kids had heard of Syria, but not Lebanon. " What, yer Lesbanese?"

[arcadian]

13. oi' - ul

[Democrats_win]

14. Satan.

[question everything]

18. Same as Iraq

ee-raq, or ee-ran.

Same as Israel and Italy, not like Ireland or Iceland (eyer-land, eyec-land)

[Sebastian Doyle]

19. EVIL COUNTRY THAT HAS OUR OIL !!11!!1!11!!

:crazy:

[JI7]

24. the letter E and Rahn( rhymes with Rahm as in Rahm emanuel)

E+Rahn

[Liberal_in_LA]

26. ee - ron

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