Welcome Back Qatar

qatar.jpgI’ve been hearing the country Qatar’s name being pronounced so many various ways in all the war coverage — from “gutter”, “cutter” and “gatter” to “guitar” (or maybe it was “gitter”)(!) — I started to wonder just how the heck it’s supposedly properly pronounced (in American English)…
According to Merriam-Webster and their online audio pronunciation, it apparently is supposed to sound like “kotter”. I haven’t heard that one yet.