>>>>>>>>>The invasion occurred after 12 UN resolutions failed.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Meanwhile, Israel was occupied five times.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I think I made that point somewhere here in this thread...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I'm reading sequentially. Limitation of the mind...
>>>>>
>>>>>Most of the analysts are saying that what Russia REALLY wants is Ukrane.
>>>>
>>>>It's spelled ukraIne.
>>>
>>>Ukralne! Roger that.
>>
>>Good!
>>
>>Except that's an i, i.e. Ukraine (if it looked like an L, screw Arial. I hate the bastard. It was an uppercase i, for emphasis, which looked OK in Courier, which I also don't like).
>>
>> Next task. Learn to pronounce Gruziya (that's how Georgia calls itself, I presume), and Tbilisi (note that the impossible initial TB is not impossible when a whole nation can pronounce it). Find Gruzian web radio or whatever to hear the sound.
>
>Because it is not pronounced tb... it is pronounced ti or tə?
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http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/audio.pl?ggtbil01.wav=Tbilisi>or (alternate):
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http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/audio.pl?ggtbil02.wav=Tiflis>
>Main Entry: Tbi·li·si
>Pronunciation: \tə-ˈbē-lə-sē, tə-bə-ˈlē-sē\
>Variant(s): or Tif·lis \ˈti-fləs, tə-ˈflēs\
Both versions of the pronunciation on marriam-webster are wrong.
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