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Old 11-29-2005, 10:42 AM   #3
mrnoodle
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Thing is, 'jaguar' isn't an English word -- it's Portuguese, and it's pronounced "yag-war" with a kind of hhh sound on the y. So in this case at least, the Americanized version is closer to the correct pronunciation than the Brit version is.
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