Bumbling Bush turns to FO-net-ics


	Bumbling Bush turns to FO-net-ics

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9-26-2007 6:59 AM

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<TABLE width="10%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="left" class="bpnArticleImg"><TBODY><TR><TD><IMG border="0" alt="Spelling it out: George W Bush addresses the UN General Assembly" src="http://newsdesk.bigpond.com/images/20070926/r186608_695824.jpg" />
                        </TD></TR><TR><TD valign="top" align="left"><DIV class="bpnArticleImgDesc">Spelling it out: George W Bush addresses the UN General Assembly</DIV>
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                        </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><P>How do you keep a leader as verbally gaffe-prone as US President George W Bush from making even more slips of the tongue?</P><P>When Mr Bush addressed the UN General Assembly the White House inadvertently showed exactly how - with a phonetic pronunciation guide on the teleprompter to get him past troublesome names of countries and world leaders.</P><P>The White House was left scrambling to explain after a marked-up draft of Mr Bush's speech popped up briefly on the UN website as he delivered his remarks, giving a rare glimpse of the special guidance he gets for major addresses.</P><P>It included phonetic spellings for supposed friend and French President Nicolas Sarkozy (sar-KO-zee) and Zimbabwe leader Robert Mugabe (moo-GAH-bee), a target of US human rights criticism.</P><P>Pronunciations were also provided for Kyrgyzstan (KEYR-geez-stan), Mauritania (moor-EH-tain-ee-a) and the Zimbabwe capital Harare (hah-RAR-ray).</P></DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/7BEC270D-54F3-428A-98E3-80049AB5F90F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>