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Ken...how about this one..a pet peeve..
Kilimanjaro
From the Swahili...should be two words Kilima njaro...
but forget about that happening... Here's another'n for you � Mississippi = "the big river" so "the Mississippi River" = "the the big-river river" � and for good measure � "Alhambra" = "the red fortress" so "the Alhambra" = "the the red fortress" No charge! Enjoy!  Much like "The La Brea Tar Pits" (in Los Angeles) -- the the tar tar pits..... 
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Yeah, and they pronounced "decades" with emphasis on the second syllable whereas in the U.S. the emphasis tends to be on the first. I've yet to hear an Englishman pronounce "aluminum" correctly. Someday those foreigners will catch on and start using proper English. also check out how they pronounce the WW 1 battle of Ypres in Belgium..... yeah for supposedly being considered so 'high class' by we Americans... they can pronounce certain words that make them sound like backwoods trailer trash... our family ancestral Name from my mom's side that goes back to the first days of Virginia 17 generations ago , was Meadows...however, there are tons of them, that spelled it closer to how they pronounced it.. Meadors... I can see La Poo Ah, being pronounced as LapWa in Finland..
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It's KILOmeter, not ka-LOM-meter. You'll (never) hear someone say ka-LOG-ram for KILOgram. 
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time.
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Ken...how about this one..a pet peeve..
Kilimanjaro
From the Swahili...should be two words Kilima njaro...
but forget about that happening... Here's another'n for you — Mississippi = "the big river" so "the Mississippi River" = "the the big-river river" — and for good measure — "Alhambra" = "the red fortress" so "the Alhambra" = "the the red fortress" No charge! Enjoy! Much like "The La Brea Tar Pits" (in Los Angeles) -- the the tar tar pits..... Isn't that where they get tar tar sauce?  Camouflage; my mother insists it's pronounced "commo-flage"
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� and there are those who go beyond the merely correct to be extra correct, who mispronounce cache (properly "cash," a hiding place or hidden collection) as if it were "cash-ay."
Cachet ("cashay") is another word entirely, with an entirely different meaning � an official seal.
"Good enough" isn't.
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So a cash of cash is said correctly, just spelt wrong - that's me!
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My peeve is those who pronounce "nuclear" as "nu-cu-lar."
As for Lapua, the high power match shooters say, "La-POO-wah."
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can we trust the pronounciation in the video after the announcer says d'Kades instead of good old fashoioned deck ades ?
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FWIW, the Random House unabridged pronouncing dictionary on my hard drive renders decade "DECK-AID," with equal emphasis on both sillybobbables.
"Good enough" isn't.
Always take your responsibilities seriously but never yourself.
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There is a lot of cachet in having an attractive cache, but it takes a lot of cash.
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time.
--Pat Parelli
American by birth; Alaskan by choice.
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A resident of Prague was wakened by a frantic pounding at his door. Upon answering it, he found his neighbor who begged him to hide him from the thugs that were looking for him. He allowed him to take refuge in a small cupboard beneath his stairs, thereby establishing a policy of caching Czechs.
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If you take the time it takes, it takes less time.
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