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Sep 2, 2010

Pygmy Hippo Born in Polish Zoo

Thanks to Ablazin Devil Head for this video.

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  • polska

    please…..nobody will kill you for bad pronunciation :)
    we understand that our language is difficult

  • knr

    My bad – the trailing parenthesis got bundled into the URL. This is the correct URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wroc%C5%82aw

    Image of correct spelling and Polish IPA (from Wikipedia page): [img]http://gokennergo.com/fb/wiki-img.png[/img]

  • knr

    We’re going to be there next month! Maybe we can go see this little guy and snag a photo.

    — Pedant Power Activate —

    FWIW, the best part about this video may be the way that the announcer pronounces Wroc?aw (and the way they spell it onscreen – “Wrocklaw”). That IS the way it looks like it’s pronounced but I’d expect the people responsible for putting this story together to take the extra time to make sure that the anchor knows how to pronounce it correctly. For the record, it’s [?vr?t??swaf] (see Polish IPA and link to audio pronunciation here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wroc%C5%82aw).

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