How do you pronounce Moscow?

[MadmanRB]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzycFeqNxIA

[szymon_g]

Mockba (sorry, lack of cyrilics)- moss-kwa. simple!

[forrestcupp]

Interesting. Around here most people say Mos-cow, but I usually say Mos-coe. I see it's pretty much evenly divided.

And for the record, I wasn't asking how to pronounce Moskva.

[PaulW2U]

Mos-coe is the only English speaking pronunciation that makes any sense. I've heard people pronounce it Mos-cow but it sounds very wrong to me.

Having been a short wave listener in years gone by, I'm sure the English service of Radio Moscow announced themselves as Radio Mos-coe rather then Radio Mosc-cow. Or may be that was the European Service rather than the North American Service.

[mips]

I've heard people pronounce it Mos-cow but it sounds very wrong to me.

Varies by region I reckon. Every time I see the name Arkansas I pronounce it as such (Like Dorothy from Kansas) and only afterwards do I remember that people from the US say Arkinsaw...

[forrestcupp]

Varies by region I reckon. Every time I see the name Arkansas I pronounce it as such (Like Dorothy from Kansas) and only afterwards do I remember that people from the US say Arkinsaw...

Yeah, those Native Americans have some weird spellings and pronunciations. My favorite is how "Mackinac" is pronounced "Mackinaw".

[Dlambert]

MoscoW to me from US.

[standingwave]

Moscow, Idaho: Mos-coe (rhymes with show)
Moscow, Russia: Mos-cow (rhymes with plow)

[Roasted]

Moscow

as in

(tree) moss
(moo) cow

[cbennett926]

Only place I've heard it pronounced as 'cow' is US tv so it could be something local to the US but no way of knowing for sure.

I'm used to hearing mos-coh/coe locally and from some other English (Queen's) countries.

Well, in the midwest, and any other place I've heard/said it (East coast, South) I've heard Moss-cow