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Originally posted by Ronn_Bman:
I wonder how many people know where Qatar is? Better yet, I wonder who can pronounce it. I always thought it was "K-tar", for some reason, but the newscasters are saying, "gutter".
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Qatar is a small country to the right of Saudi-Arabia, adjacent to the Persian Gulf, IIRC... And I believe it's indeed pronounced like "gutter", only more with a "hard" g than a "soft" one, if that makes any sense...
But Qatar isn't much of a problem, learned most of the "mainland" countries and the bigger islands in primary (!) school, with most of it repeated in highschool.
But those smaller island groups are more of a challenge... I only know for instance that the Turks and Caicos Islands as well as St. Kitts & Nevis should be *somewhere* in the Caribbean, just don't ask me to point the exact location.
edit: bleh, seems that others have already beaten me to it.
[ 11-21-2002, 10:30 AM: Message edited by: Grojlach ]