May 30
Ama… um… the Iranian leader
John McCain’s botched attempt yesterday to say “Ahmadinejad”. BBC says you supposed to say it this way:
“Today’s pronunciation is Iranian President Mahmoud AHMADINEJAD (sometimes also spelt AHMADINEZHAD). Our recommendation is mah-MOOD ah-mad-in-uh-ZHAAD (-h is pronounced in ‘Mahmoud’ and in ‘Ahmadinejad’) based on the advice of the BBC Persian Monitoring team.”
(BBC via Chicago Tribune)