how do you pronounce Qatar?

[dead0man]

I say it like "cutter", but only because I like the way it sounds best.  I think the second one, kuh-TAR is how it's supposed to be said, but it doesn't feel right to say.

[7,052,770]

The Saudi Arabian guy I kinda knew in college said option 2 and rolled his eyes at 3/4/5.

I heard "KAY-tar" (rhymes with radar) some growing up, which sounds awful now.

[Mr. Smith]

Rhymes with "guitah", because f*(k rhoticity.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

The Saudi Arabian guy I kinda knew in college said option 2 and rolled his eyes at 3/4/5.

If he doesn't want to get in trouble with MBS these days he'd say either "Where?" or North Saudi Arabia.

[Dr. Arch]

[kʰɑ.tʰɑ́ɹ] staying as faithful as possible as an English speaker or [kʰə.tʰɑ́ɹ] with English vowel reduction on the unstressed syllable.

[Crumpets]

Kotter

[Some of My Best Friends Are Gay]

Cuh-tar

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

Option 2, but I have been told option 5 is correct, but I say 2 anyways.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Kotter

Welcome back!

[Santander]

We are not obligated to pronounce foreign names with non-English pronunciations. I've never understood why some smartasses feel differently about Qatar (and in America, Chile too) than they do about Pakistan, Mexico, or whatever other country.

[Crumpets]

Kotter

Welcome back!

I'm really hoping that when the blockade ends, somebody runs the headline "MBS: Welcome Back Qatar!"

[Lechasseur]

Kuh-tar

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

Cutter, and I'm shocked to see it losing so badly.

[Joe Republic]

ka-TAAAARRRRRR, usually with a dramatic hand gesture

[Sestak]

Kuh-tar

[Cokeland Saxton]

kuh-TAR

[dead0man]

Cutter, and I'm shocked to see it losing so badly.

indeed, I assumed kuhTAR would win, but with like 40% of the vote.  I expected a lot more from cutter and gutter.

[RINO Tom]

Option 2, while always thinking of the Jon Oliver bit.

[TDAS04]

Somewhere in between cutter and gutter.  Voted gutter.

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

Option 2 (basic bitch, normie, FF).

[John Dule]

If you picked anything but option 2, I'm going to assume you also say "Moss-kow" instead of "Moss-ko" and "Chee-lay" instead of "Chilly."

[Progressive Pessimist]

I've always said "Cuh-tar," but to my knowledge "cutter" is the appropriate way...which just doesn't sound right to me.

[Figueira]

We are not obligated to pronounce foreign names with non-English pronunciations. I've never understood why some smartasses feel differently about Qatar (and in America, Chile too) than they do about Pakistan, Mexico, or whatever other country.

What defines a pronunciation as "non-English"?

[Figueira]

If you picked anything but option 2, I'm going to assume you also say "Moss-kow" instead of "Moss-ko" and "Chee-lay" instead of "Chilly."

That is the normal pronunciation of Moscow is American English (at least for everyone I know) and Chile can go either way but I usually approximate the Spanish pronunciation to avoid confusion with the adjective or the food.

Anyway, Option 2.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

The same way we pronounce "common cold" in Polish, which is the very same word (katar).

Of course I had to be very careful at my Arabic classes to give a proper native pronounciation.