Bush Hooked on Phonics, Part II

As reported earlier, George W. Bush's speech to the UN was accidentally released, with phonetic spellings of the complicated words included. The entire speech is now available at ABC News' website. Yes, I know that lots of speakers do this sort of thing, but looking at the phonetic spellings is a helluva lot more fun that listening to him speak.

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President Bush's Remarks to the UN General Assembly

. . .The United States salutes the nations that have recently taken strides toward liberty – including Ukraine, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan [KEYRgeez-stan], Mauritania [moor-EH-tain-ee-a], Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Morocco. . . The United Nations must insist on change In Harare [hah-RAR-ray] – and freedom for the people of Zimbabwe. . .

Read the whole speech at: ABCNews.go.com

Bush Hooked on Phonics?

Photo from source, Reuters.com

OK, I'm sure that if I had to get up and give a speech that contained several hard to pronounce words, I would probably do this too. But I still find this pretty funny.

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When words get in the way, Bush goes phonetic

NEW YORK (Reuters) - How do you keep a leader as verbally gaffe-prone as U.S. President George W. Bush from making even more slips of the tongue?

When Bush addressed the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday, 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. . .

Find out more at: Reuters.com (ROY-terrs dawt calm)