How do you pronounce Rabaul ?

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Hartley
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How do you pronounce Rabaul ?

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Ra-ba-oo-l ?

Ra-boo-l ?

Ra-bou-l ?
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I've always pronounced it as Ra-Ball.
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I pronounce it Ra-bow-ul.

In Polynesian, you pronounce every letter, even if they seem extraneous. So Lae should be La-ie. Sal-a-ma-u-a. Ir-a-u. Etc.

Most of these place names are butchered versions of what the natives called them as translated by Captain Cook, Bougainville, etc.
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Originally posted by BillBrown
I've always pronounced it as Ra-Ball.
Same here. Thats how we alla say it down under here and so too for those that have been to that part of the world.
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I pronounce it "G-R-O-U-N-D, Z-E-E-R-O"

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I have been there.

Its Ra-bowel

But the "O" sounds a lot like an "a" as in "rat"
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I have been there.

What was it like? Were there a lot of remnants from the war?
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