As you British posters know, we in the U.S. have a new president whose first name is Barack. I recently was listening to a BBC report, and the announcer pronounced his name as bah-RACK (to rhyme with Iraq). We pronounce it bah-ROCK. How do our British (and Canadian) posters pronounce it?
Originally posted by Kalleh: As you British posters know, we in the U.S. have a new president whose first name is Barack. I recently was listening to a BBC report, and the announcer pronounced his name as bah-RACK (to rhyme with Iraq). We pronounce it bah-ROCK. How do our British (and Canadian) posters pronounce it?
Is the capitalisation intended to indicate stress? We tend not to stress either syllable and most people use a schwa for the second: ba-rəck. However, if anything it's closer to an a than an o: ba-rack (as in where soldiers live). Do you pronounce it, then, the same way as baroque?
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