>>>Cone-yak is the simplest pronunciation.
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>>Does that mean nobody pronounces the "gn" in "cognac" as "ny" (as in "new")?
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>I've never heard anybody pronounce it that way. Then I don't exactly hang around in cognac drinking circles. ;)

Thanks - it's really hard to check pronunciation over the net, specially with English having no standardized way of phonetic transcription (actually, there are as many standards as there are books that do them :).