was watching dimwitted news people try to pronounce "Chichen Itza".
A non-story if there ever was one.
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The 'new' Seven Wonders of the World
? The Great Wall of China
? Petra in Jordan
? Brazil's statue of Christ the Redeemer
? Peru's Machu Picchu
? Mexico's Chichen Itza pyramid
? The Colosseum in Rome
? India's Taj Mahal
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TRAVEL/07/06/seven.wonders/index.html
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"Balderdash!" I think it's a story just because it is one- people are talking about it and voting in their way. Just the way the original Seven got to be themselves. And those were scattered over a large period of time when something had to be truly wondrous to be "remembered" for so long.
Machu Picchu Machu Picchu Machu Picchu. Say that ten times fast.
Antikythera to you, buddy. 
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rubbish!!
can you pronounce Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (and you must have heard it a zillion times!)
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...(phonetically in syllables) "Mah-moud Ah-ma-dine-ji-had".
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and it's the job of news readers to be able to pronounce their copy. They are usually given phonetic breakdowns to go by for difficult words, so yes, dimwitte
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mangled Chichen Itza, as Ed predicted. I was going to transliterate her version here for our mutual amusement, but it was so unlike any human language I can't remember it.
BTW: "chee'chen eet'sa"
Also, can't be too harsh. That one and Machu Potatoes are pre-Columbian languages filtered through 16th Cent. Spanish transliterations into modern English. Who knows how Moctmuz ... ah, Mometuz ... ah, that Indian guy pronounced them.
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In the same broadcast (I believe it was) she also reported that the "tree limb" bank robber was still at large when actually he had been captured hours earlier. But I can't blame her for that. They are just rather sloppy at CNN sometimes.
I remember when I was a kid some cartoon show had a character named "Chicken Itza".
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.... the several lists of wonders/
The first two were selected before I learned to walk erect.
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
? The Great Pyramid of Giza
? The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
? The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
? The Statue of Zeus at Olympia
? The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
? The Colossus of Rhodes
? The Pharos of Alexandria
The Seven Natural Wonders of the World
? Mount Everest
? The Great Barrier Reef
? The Grand Canyon
? Victoria Falls
? The Harbor of Rio de Janeiro
? Paricutin Volcano
? The Northern Lights
http://wonderclub.com/AllWorldWonders.html
Angeline
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