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Bush's UN Speech Full of

Fone-eh-tick Pronunciations for World Leaders

September 25, 2007 1:52 PM

ABC News' Ann Compton and Jennifer Duck report:
Never before has the White House released a draft version
of the President's speech to the annual United Nations General Assembly.

But this year, a glimpse of how the President sees his speeches
was accidentally placed on the UN website...
Pronunciations for President Bush's friend French President Sarkozy "[sar-KOzee]"
appeared in draft #20 on the UN website. Other pronunciations included the
Mugabe "[moo-GAHbee] regime" and pronunciations
for countries "Kyrgyzstan [KEYRgeez-stan]"
and "Mauritania [moor-EH-tain-ee-a]."