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Re: Jagwar or Jag-you-are.

To: british-cars@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Jagwar or Jag-you-are.
From: We need bigger guns!!! <brandenberg@3d.enet.dec.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 92 18:52:17 EST
> From: berry@athos.pei.com (Berry Kercheval)
> 
> During the Gulf War the british correspondents kept calling the
> aircraft "Jag-you-er" too.
> 
> I think only the animal is still "jag-warr".
> 

Here's the definitive pronunciation key:

British English:        jag' yoo wa"r

American English:       jag' wa"r

E. E. Milne:            jag' yoo la"r           (personal favorite)


                                        Monty


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