>>>>>>>>>>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?
>>
>>http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/audio.pl?ggtbil01.wav=Tbilisi
>>or (alternate):
>>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.

It figures. Maybe that is the 'North American pronounciation' :o)