It is pronounced KrakoV, with a V like vagina. No cows in the city or the name.
Same as Moscow, ends with ow as in Owl. Not cow
Sofia is Sofia with emphasis on the O not on the i
Just scratching my pet peeve with incorrectly pronounced names on TV 🙂
Speaking of pet peeves….
What in the world is the HIV virus? Doesn’t anyone in TV news (other than Lynn Martinez- she got it right) know what an acronym is? I know what HIV is, and I know what the human immuno-deficiency virus is. HIV virus is just plain wrong! I’ll betcha those same folks put their PIN numbers into the ATM machines as well…
Brian – You are so right!!!!!!! I don’t think people really know what they are saying…….Here is another one…….”.schools will be taking the FCAT Test starting next week. ” The last letter in FCAT is T which represents the word test.
Still we hear news people and others talk about the FCAT test.
Oh well…….guess we can’t expect too much from some down here
One that get to me all the time is the redundancy of “the reason, why” Belkys Nerey never fail to use it. Almost every single news cast.