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Well, when it comes to names of places, some of my favorites are:
Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)
Addis Ababa (Ethiopia)
Uuande, Cameroon
Gabarone, Botswana
Tegucigalpa (and that's got to be a poor spelling!)
Belmopan, Belize
Seychelles (because it looks like seashells even though it's not pronounced the same)
Madagascar (oh, that is one of the most evocatively romantic sounding places of all to my ear)
Kiribati (because it sounds so different from how it looks)
Celebes Sea
Banda Sea
Timor Sea
Bellinghausen Sea (hard to beat that)
Bellinghausen regards,
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Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)Cool, WW, that's always been one of my faves, too! Another along the same lines would be Iquique (Chile?) I have a friend from high school with whom they were used as happy exclamations: OUAGADOUGOU? IQUIQUE!!!! 
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Wordwind mentioned Kiribati. I have heard that this is pronounced "Kiribass". Is this true?
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dxb:
We discussed this a while back on the board. The way I've heard it pronounced is similar to what you show:
KEER-ee--bahss
...that may be off a little, but that's what I've heard. Love the sound--and it's so cool that it looks, English-wise, as though it would be pronounced a different way.
Best regards,
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The lead singer of the group Tarika, from Madagascar, is a young woman named Hanitra. Her name is pronounced Hahnch.
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>Hanitra... pronounced Hahnch.
what?? British influence in a former French colony?!
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British influence in a former French colony?!
Dunno bout that. It seems a common thang for final vowels to be unpronounced. Fanafody pr, fanafood, e.g.
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I've always liked the sound of Aruba, meself.
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Let me say that I love all of the Good Lord's words equally. Once when I was young and a poetry snob I hated the word Tintinnabulation. I thought it contrived and Poe a mere writer of, ugh, -songs. Now I love Tintinnabulation. And when I was young and a petty manager I loved the word FUM. Two of the office girls in my charge, after one of my friendly suggestions as to how they could become better employees, would always mumble in a sing song as I walked away, - FUM,fumfum FUM. I thought they were referring to me as the fe-fi-foe-fum giant in Jack-in-the-beanstalk, but later I found out that FUM was a acronym for... F___K you Milo. Today I can take FUM or leave it. - -
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Some of my favourite Proper Nouns are place names from Asia.
Kota Kinabalu (Ko-tah Kin-ah-BAH-loo)
Surabaya (Soo-rah-by-ah with a little bit of a roll on the 'r') Hi Bingley - correct me if I'm wrong!
Just to name one or two...
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