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How Do You Pronounce Caribbean? |
This ongoing debate is easily settled by letting the people who own the name, the Carib Indians, determine how it should be pronounced. |
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How To Pronounce Caribbean How do you pronounce Caribbean? Although many tourists
and most American newscasters prefer to say "ka-rib-e-an," this is a corruption of "ker-a-be-an,"
the pronunciation truest to how the Carib ("ker-ib ")
Indians pronounce their own name. The regional beer (Carib) also is pronounced "kar-ib,"
not "ka-rib-eh." According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the phonetic division of Caribbean into “ker-ə-bē-ən” was first recorded in 1772. |
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