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Old 01-25-2011, 06:58 PM   #108 (permalink)
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Pere - I pronounce it just as it is written. I don't know how to write it down though. Maybe like pay-ray? (or peh-reh, ugh not sure about this) But I've heard people pronounce it like 'pair'. I was never sure what's right.
I think I usually sort of pronounce it "peh-reh" so I guess that means I've been doing it right.

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And I've never heard the Egyptian god Ra be pronounced as anything other than 'rah'. Well, I'm not 100% sure, but at least that's how it's pronounced in my language. But maybe there are more versions of that word.
It looks like Merriam-Webster agrees with you that it's "rah" as far as the god goes. I'm still curious about Sun Ra though. Is it pronounced like the god for him too?
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