How do you pronounce "Karadzic"?
Experienced broadcasters in news agencies around the world are announcing Radovan Karadžić's arrest, but mumble when it comes time to pronunciate his last name.
It is a tough name to pronounce, even as Serbian names go.
The correct pronunciation is: "CAR-ah-djits."
The most popular pronunciation by Americans and Brits is: "kuh-ROD-itch."
The worst pronunciation I've ever heard (from a former Special Forces commander who was in the hunt for a year) is "CARROT-itch."
The Serbian spelling of his name is: "Радован Караџић."
posted by Balkan Ghost @ 8:04 PM
7 Comments:
OOps, the right pronunciation should be
CAR-ah-djitch
Hi, World Have Yor say programme on BBC radio wants to tlak about Kradzic's arrest today - we'd love to hear your views. Let me know if you are at all interested - priya.shah@bbc.co.uk
Thanks, Priya
good point, anon... I wrote it the way I did since the american tongue softens the banana'ed "c."
What I love is when English speakers call them "Ka-RAD-itch and Ma-LAD-itch". "Carrot-itch" is nowhere near as bad.
Hear about 4 inept pronunciations here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln0KAq7hNH0&eurl=http://www.google.com/news
Almost hilarious.
the correct pronuncation is p-e-d-e-r... jebem ti mater u picku cetnisku
bosancino ti se javi. smrdonja, ti si najviso govno sta postoji. hoces da ti posaljem sapun da se okupas pederu.
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