How do the Georgians pronounce Georgia?

[question everything]

(the one by the Caspian Sea, that is).

Just as for years we used to say Peking and then we switched to Beijing.

[David Dunham]

1. The same way we pronounce the state of Georgia.

[renie408]

10. I am from the south, that would be "jawja" down here. n/t

[BlooInBloo]

2. Cross-alphabet transliteration is hard.

[Glorfindel]

7. Well-nigh impossible, in some cases

We call Al Mamlakah al Urduniyah al Hashimiyah "Jordan"

[bdf]

11. And we call George W Bush

fucktard

[Glorfindel]

12. Indeed we do!

:toast: Well said!

[lame54]

3. It's pronounced - "Widdlewassel"

[bbinacan]

4. From Wiktionary

Russian: Грузия (Grúzija) f.

Georgian
Proper nounსაქართველო (Sakartvelo)

Georgia (a country in the Caucasus)
Retrieved from "http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E1%83%A1%E1%83%90%E1%83%A5%E1%83%90%E1%83%A0%E1%83%97%E1%83%95%E1%83%94%E1%83%9A%E1%83%9D"

[question everything]

14. Thanks, was no aware of wikitionary..

thus, it really is pronounced Gruzia..

There are several threads here about Georgia and I have to think twice that it is not the one where Atlanta is the capital.

[gateley]

5. Wow - I never knew that about Peking/Beijing. And I never

wondered what happened to Peking, come to think of it.

[Glorfindel]

6. When I was in elementary school, the maps said "Peiping"

which we thought was quite amusing, for the usual schoolboy reasons. :)

[gateley]

8. You may not have remembered it otherwise! :-) nt

[question everything]

13. And Bombay is now Mumbai (an Indian city)

(I think, though that a Peking Duck is still the same...)

[Obamanaut]

9. Correctly nt

[kwenu]

15. Right now it looks like they pronounce it "Russian Georgia."