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  • argee 2 hours

    > In the Karakoram (pronounced keh·ruh·kaw·ruhm) Range—a mountainous region straddling the borders of Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and China…

    Non-sequitur but no one pronounces it like that in those regions.

    On another note katsu (pronounced cat-sue) is a dish you should try in Japan.

    s20n 2 hours

    I don't know where they even got that pronunciation from. The wikipedia page says "Karakoram (English: /ˌkɑːrəˈkɔːrəm, ˌkær-/, Urdu: [kaːɾaːkoːɾəm])"

    none of which is [kerəkɑːrəm] as the author suggests

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karakoram

    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Karakoram

    ktimespi 1 hours

    Yeah, I agree. Funnily enough, Katsu isn't pronounced that way either XD (it's pronounced cawt-sue)

    argee 1 hours

    That's the joke!

    ktimespi 42 minutes

    it's so over for me lol