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NL888 Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev pronounced as /zəukɑ:// sɑːni:v/?

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon bombing suspect, has told investigators that his brother was the driving force behind the attacks and that they were motivated by religion, but did not have help or contact from terrorists or groups overseas, according to media reports quoting U.S. officials.
Tsarnaev, who was arraigned in his hospital bed Monday on charges of using and conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction resulting in death, has been questioned by interrogators.
  

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Did you have a question regarding English grammar?
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It is about pronunciation, not grammar.
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Many American broadcasters are using this pronunciation: /'d?ok?? ts??'n??j?f/, sometimes without the /t/.

CJ
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On seeing a name like this for the first time, without hearing it, most native speakers would have no idea how to pronounce it.

Clive
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Sorry failed to understand your symbols.
Does it mean /'d?ok?: ts?:'n?:j?f/?
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NL888 Sorry failed to understand your symbols. Does it mean /'d?ok?: ts?:'n?:j?f/?
More or less, yes. What you've written is more like a British pronunciation. They often take an "r" as a sign to lengthen the preceding vowel. We Americans actually pronounce the "r".
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Why is r in /'d?ok?? ts??'n??j?f/ upside down?
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NL888Why is r in /'d?ok?? ts??'n??j?f/ upside down?
It's the IPA's way of showing "approximant R", which is what Americans use.

The right-side-up /r/ is "trilled R", which is used in many other languages, such as Spanish and Italian.

If you don't want to use the IPA symbols exactly, and you're transcribing English, you can probably substitute
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