Kenya or Kenya?

[kevinwpratt]

Bit of a weird one but do you pronounce it as

a) Kenya (ken-ya)

b) Kenya (Keen-ya)

Until tonight i thought only my wife pronouced it Kenya (Keen-ya) but someone on tv pronounced it this way too.

How many other people pronounce it this way??

[David O'Leary]

Bit of a weird one but do you pronounce it as

a) Kenya (ken-ya)

b) Kenya (Keen-ya)

Until tonight i thought only my wife pronouced it Kenya (Keen-ya) but someone on tv pronounced it this way too.

How many other people pronounce it this way??

I've heard Geoff Boycott pronounce it as Keen-ya, but he's the only one I know who does

[AoWW]

ken-ya, for me.

[Daggers]

I'm not fat I just have a sweet hockey body.

[blue blood]

keenya as per saying it with some keenyan swagger.

[stez]

to be honest, i'm from leicester, so it's ken-yoh

[Head Honcho]

The country is named after Mount Kenya pronounced Keen-ya but the Kenyan leader for many years was Jomo Kenyatta pronounced Ken-yatta so the pronounciation Ken-ya has become the most used in recent times.

[Finnegan]

Kenya. Unless you're from Sewf Efrikah, then it'd probably be Keenyer.

[Daggers]

Keen.

Yea!

[Jay]

Bit of a weird one but do you pronounce it as

a) Kenya (ken-ya)

b) Kenya (Keen-ya)

Until tonight i thought only my wife pronouced it Kenya (Keen-ya) but someone on tv pronounced it this way too.

How many other people pronounce it this way??

there seems to be a bit of a rule to this from what I have experienced once while working in the travel industry

for the majority of people you got to KENYA and when you return you have been to KEENYA

[SOCCERROO FOX]

Can-ya for me

Can ya fetch me a beveradge love

[MPH]

Bit of a weird one but do you pronounce it as

a) Kenya (ken-ya)

b) Kenya (Keen-ya)

Until tonight i thought only my wife pronouced it Kenya (Keen-ya) but someone on tv pronounced it this way too.

How many other people pronounce it this way??

i have a kenyan friend who pronounces it Keenya...

[Chandler]

i have a kenyan friend who pronounces it Keenya...

A very hot politically correct potato this one. Old colonial buffers say 'Keenya' post modern anti imperialists say 'Kenya.'

Puts me in mind of the song whose refrain goes something like this:

You say either (eether) and I say either (eyether)

You say tomato (tomahto) and I say tomato (tomayto)

Either, either,

Tomato, tomato,

Lets call the whole thing off...

But even when the sun was failing to set on the British Empire there was a fierce debate about the proper name of that rather large area in East Africa that's got lots of man eating lions roaming around in it:

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0368-4016...TOR-enlargePage

If you're prepared to give up your LCFC match ticket you can read the last two pages of that diatribe. And of course, you can also get the original 6 page article that caused B.J. Ratcliffe to vent his spleen.

Serious business this. Just don't ask about Zimbabwe...

[blue blood]

A very hot politically correct potato this one. Old colonial buffers say 'Keenya' post modern anti imperialists say 'Kenya.'

Puts me in mind of the song whose refrain goes something like this:

You say either (eether) and I say either (eyether)

You say tomato (tomahto) and I say tomato (tomayto)

Either, either,

Tomato, tomato,

Lets call the whole thing off...

But even when the sun was failing to set on the British Empire there was a fierce debate about the proper name of that rather large area in East Africa that's got lots of man eating lions roaming around in it:

http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0368-4016...TOR-enlargePage

If you're prepared to give up your LCFC match ticket you can read the last two pages of that diatribe. And of course, you can also get the original 6 page article that caused B.J. Ratcliffe to vent his spleen.

Serious business this. Just don't ask about Zimbabwe...

and if ur an indian that used to live in kenya and moved to england then its kneyar