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(11-05-2015, 12:25 AM)Penn Wrote: No.

I have talked to many Indians and Pakistanis about areas they are from and sometimes about different regions including the Bay of Bengal and surrounding areas.  Different areas have slightly different pronunciations but the one thing they all have in common is where the syllable break is and how the first syllable is pronounced.  The first syllable is Ben.  The second syllable does have minor variations.  The most common one I have heard are either the same as you might expect from the spelling.  Pretty much the same as gall as in gall bladder.  The second most common (and most common among Americans which I too use) I've heard is somewhere between putting an "LS" sound at the end of the word go and the word ghouls without any emphasis on the vowels.

I guess the most common mispronunciation I see is just the syllable break which is what people here were mocking Chris Simms for but he is also wrong by making the soft "E" sound like a long "A".

I did check to see what dictionary.com says just now and it is the same as I just described http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/bengal

in official team videos, the Bengals media staff pronounces it "Bangulls", and it's been like that for as long as they've been releasing videos.  I don't really care how Pakistanis pronounce it, to be honest.  I'm sure that isn't the only word that they'll Pronounce differently than the Bengals.