English speakers, here's how to pronounce 'Qatar'

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https://www.cnn.com/travel/how-to-pronounce-qatar-cec

English speakers, here’s how to pronounce ‘Qatar’

By AJ Willingham, CNN
3 minute read
Updated 3:57 PM EDT, Tue October 24, 2023

CNN — The pronunciation of Qatar, a small country on the Arabian Peninsula jutting into the Persian Gulf, is a no-brainer for Arabic speakers and speakers of similar languages. However, to English speakers, it is literally one tricky letter after another. That’s because even the word Qatar is a Romanized version of the original Arabic قطر , which means each letter isn’t exactly as it seems. Let’s try our best to figure it out.

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What does it sound like all together? In the International Phonetic Alphabet, which assigns a character to different universal sounds, the Arabic “Qatar” is pronounced ˈɡɪtˤɑr.

In the “Forgive me, I only have a keyboard with letters of the Roman alphabet and no idea what IPA is” translation, the pronunciation would be something like: ghu-terh.

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1. I remember Colin Powell pronounced it "Cutter" during the Golf War.

Is that about right?

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3. I *think* it's closer to "gutter" or "gut her".

I'm not great with pronunciations, though.

"Cutter" is how we said it when I was in the Gulf.

Try this:

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4. Ok. Thanks.

[erronis]

2. I'm sure how you pronounce their name is based on if you're pro or con.

Same for every country on the earth.

[Think. Again.]

5. I agree...

...I remember thinking way back when bush, powell, etc were pronouncing it to sound like 'gutter' deliberately.

[ALBliberal]

6. Is it similar to guitar like the musical instrument?

[Unwind Your Mind]

7. That's what I thought

I’m still not clear lol