From the desk of James Reel on Wednesday, December 13th 2006 at 6:57
MUCHO PIN8
Radio announcer conundrum of the week: How to pronounce the last name of dead-at-last Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet? The answer, according to Slate’s Andy Engber, is that you can find a justification for just about anything. Engber finally dug up a video of the man pronouncing his own name, though, and it came out “pee-no-chay.” You can read the whole pronunciation saga here. That's where you'll also learn how to pronounce the title of this post.
