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Thursday, October 25, 2007

Hedging his bets

Alistair somebody on the BBC News (sounded like Leafhead... ah, thank you, Internet: Leithead) just reported on the Kabul Open... and signed off with "the Kábul Golf Course, Kabúl".

I think his first shot (Cobble) was right ... but it's funny he'd say it both ways inside of four words.

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Q. Pheevr11:36 PM, October 25, 2007
I'm guessing that he thinks the name is Kabúl, but that he's got stress retraction in Kabul Golf Course (i.e., Kabúl Gólf Course becomes Kábul Gólf Course to make the stresses non-adjacent, as in síxteen tóns).
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