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"Ukraine" pronunciation?

What is the most common way of pronouncing "Ukraine" or "Ukrainian" in AmE? What is the "correct" AmE way, if it's different?

oo-crane or you-crane?
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[nq:1]What is the most common way of pronouncing "Ukraine" or "Ukrainian" in AmE? What is the "correct" AmE way, if it's different? [/nq] The latter.

  • [nq:1]What is the most common way of pronouncing "Ukraine" or "Ukrainian" in AmE?
  • What is the "correct" AmE way, if it's different?
  • [/nq] The latter.
  • com and looking it up.
  • They have is access to a voice file from there.
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[nq:1]What is the most common way of pronouncing "Ukraine" or "Ukrainian" in AmE? What is the "correct" AmE way, if it's different? oo-crane or you-crane?[/nq]
The latter. You can hear it pronounced by going to www.m-w.com and looking it up. They have is access to a voice file from there.
Skitt (in Hayward, California)
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[nq:2]What is the most common way of pronouncing "Ukraine" or "Ukrainian" in AmE? What is the "correct" AmE way, if it's different? oo-crane or you-crane?[/nq]
[nq:1]The latter. You can hear it pronounced by going to www.m-w.com and looking it up. They have is access to a voice file from there.[/nq]
****. That's a nice example of incomplete editing I have there. Delete the "is".

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[nq:2]What is the most common way of pronouncing "Ukraine" or "Ukrainian" in AmE? What is the "correct" AmE way, if it's different? oo-crane or you-crane?[/nq]
[nq:1]The latter. You can hear it pronounced by going to www.m-w.com and looking it up. They have is access to a voice file from there.[/nq]
This surprised me. I am not American, but I am used to the 'you-crine' pronunciation.
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[nq:2]The latter. You can hear it pronounced by going to www.m-w.com and looking it up. They have is access to a voice file from there.[/nq]
[nq:1]This surprised me. I am not American, but I am used to the 'you-crine' pronunciation.[/nq]
Well, yeah look how you guys say "day".

Skitt (in Hayward, California)
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[nq:2]This surprised me. I am not American, but I am used to the 'you-crine' pronunciation.[/nq]
[nq:1]Well, yeah look how you guys say "day".[/nq]
I'll always remember an Australian acquaintance talking about what sounded to me like "syving the gryte whyles."

Best Donna Richoux
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[nq:2]This surprised me. I am not American, but I am used to the 'you-crine' pronunciation.[/nq]
[nq:1]Well, yeah look how you guys say "day".[/nq]
To die for. Seriously, though, I said and (mostly) heard the 'ine' form in Britain too. However, it is possible, if one forgets the 'y', that it is Russian that has influenced me, although I don't say 'oo-cry-een'.

Rob Bannister
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[nq:2]The latter. You can hear it pronounced by going to www.m-w.com andlooking it up. They have is access to a voice file from there.[/nq]
[nq:1]This surprised me. I am not American, but I am used to the 'you-crine' pronunciation.[/nq]
At least Webster's Collegiate shows three pronunciations in writing, if not in WAV form: "you-CRANE," "YOU-crane," and "you-CRINE." The American Heritage D
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[nq:2]Well, yeah look how you guys say "day".[/nq]
[nq:1]To die for. Seriously, though, I said and (mostly) heard the 'ine'form in Britain too.[/nq]
That surprises me. I thought /jU'kren/ ("crane") was the usual BrE pronunciation. There's some variation on whether it's "the Ukraine" or just "Ukraine".
[nq:1]However, it is possible, if one forgets the 'y', that it is Russian that has in
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[nq:1]looking[/nq]
[nq:2]This surprised me. I am not American, but I am used to the 'you-crine' pronunciation.[/nq]
[nq:1]At least Webster's Collegiate shows three pronunciations in writing, if not in WAV form: "you-CRANE," "YOU-crane," and "you-CRINE." The American Heritage Dictionary at http://www.bartle
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[nq:2]Well, yeah look how you guys say "day".[/nq]
[nq:1]I'll always remember an Australian acquaintance talking about what sounded to me like "syving the gryte whyles."[/nq]
Or having to explain that there was nothing extraterrestrial about the spice ships that once plied the straits of Malacca.

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