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  • [Prime Minister] Brown's (endearingly mis)pronounced friendship [Auschwitz=Ouchwhich]

    07/21/2008 4:21:14 PM PDT · by SJackson · 4 replies · 34+ views
    Jerusalem Post ^ | 7-21-08 | DAVID HOROVITZ
    As Gordon Brown, the first British prime minister ever to address the Knesset, told our parliamentarians on Monday, his father was a lifelong friend of Israel who chaired the Church of Scotland's Israel Committee, visited at least twice a year and learned Hebrew. Evidently, he didn't teach his son. Brown admirably attempted, in Hebrew, to utter a phrase of greeting at the start of his speech and to quote Herzl's "If you will it, it is no dream" at the end - but rather mangled both. Indeed, his pronunciations were notable on several occasions, including an "Auschwitz" rendered as "Ouchwhich."...