How is qatar pronounced

All I care is how the person or company wants to pronounce it. It is how I call it since then. Same for many other brands that people pronounce them incorrectly everyday — Adidas, Chanel, even Marriott. We can discuss it all day long, but the only correct pronunciation is the one the company or the person wants.

You are overthinking this. Call Qatar airlines and listen to the pronunciation on the recorded greeting. Why would you cite the British or American dictionaries? Like Peking, Bombay, Florence, etc? I lived in Qatar for many years — in Doha and Umm Said. The Qataries — and us expats — pronounced it as kuTAR.

I think changing the pronunciation of Qatar is New Agediculous! Are we going to start saying Francaise instead of France or Paree instead of Paris or Deutschland instead of Germany etcetera?!

Do other countries pronounce our names our ways ,on a Spanish station I heard them say Nueva York instead of New York. Do they pronounce Qataries Cutteries now? How does Qataries pronounce our country and cities and states? Re:Smokey Bear? And instead of so-called hashtag why not use the star sign?

I lived in Dubai when it was as a dusty, desert town. Fascinating but very provincial. We, everybody, pronounced it ku-TAR. Sign in. Log into your account. Forgot your password? Password recovery. Recover your password. Frequent Miler. Get help. Airline Loyalty Programs. Hotel Loyalty Programs. Booking Awards. Please enter all required fields. Correct invalid entries.

Qatar Airways slashes award rates, becomes a competitive option again. In the video below at around he clearly pronounces it as kuh-ter, which is a little different from cutter which some people pronounce like butter but a lot different from kuh-TAR.

At this point, I started to think that the true Qatar pronunciation was somewhere much closer to cutter than kuh-TAR. So on board my recent first class A flight from Paris to Doha read about that amazing flight here , I decided I would put a flight attendant on the spot. So I asked the cabin manager what the proper pronunciation was. And the she told me…. She said I could go with cutter or kuh-TAR. That definitely was not the clarity I was looking for.

I was hoping this would be a black and white issue. But it did feel good to at least hear that from an employee of Qatar Airways since it gave me a little bit of closure. This was also in line with other sources that stated that even Qataris differ on how they pronounce it depending on where in Qatar they are from.

So it sounded like either version would fly. But I wondered how people within my niche would pronounce it. These people are well-traveled and cultured, and I figured that I could rely on them for guidance here. After my Qatar flight, I decided this would be a perfect question to put in an Instagram poll. So I set up the poll and after a couple of hundred votes, the results came in overwhelmingly in favor of kuh-TAR!

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Find his full bio here. I was in the US military, which has a lot o peculiarities surrounding place nomenclature. Cutter or Gutter are more the way the American ear hears and says it. I agree with you.