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Saturday, November 17, 2007

I now pronouce you Qatar

I've been seeing ads in business magazines and web sites encouraging Westerners to do business in Qatar. Whatever this country's undoubted advantages may be, I wish they would do a PR campaign to change the pronunciation of its name. It is now pronounced either


Gutter
or
Catarrh (see definition)

Neither is very appetising. Why not make it sound like "Cater"? I can see a whole campaign around that name! I would like to do business in a place that caters to my needs.

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