[Sca-cooks] Reptilian Pronunciation (was Drive up ATM's OT, OOP (was Languages)

[Jane Williams]

On 22 May 2002 at 21:39, Philip & Susan Troy
wrote:

> Also sprach lilinah at earthlink.net:
> >BBC newscasters say jag-yew-ar for jaguar
>
> I'll concede their right to call the British auto brand by that name,
> but the animal is very clearly not a jagyewar, unless it is given a
> new name that is neither Spanish nor indigenous, native South
> American.

OK, puzzled. How *else* would you pronounce
"jaguar"? I know Americans tend to turn "e" into "oo"
at times (hence "noos" for "news"), but how does that
apply here? Does the "u" go silent, or turned into a
long "oo", or something?