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El Supremo

(20,365 posts)
Sat Jun 6, 2015, 07:58 PM Jun 2015

How do you pronounce "pharaoh"?

Besides the fact that the Egyptian-American owner misspelled it as: "American Pharoah", most people say it differently than I do.

I say it with a long "a" not like it was the card game "Faro" with a short "a".

The Brits say it more like I do:
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/pronunciation/british/pharaoh

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