Kwajalein

Etymology
From, from.

Pronunciation


Much less common pronunciations include, or. These are all very scarce among the atoll's English-speaking residents. American English is usually spoken by Kwajalein island's American expatriate population, which has the ; for accents without this merger (including Received Pronunciation), is a possible realization. This is not technically wrong, because the aforementioned father-bother merger makes this pronunciation indistinguishable from. Indeed, the name of Kwajalein island's primary hotel, the Kwaj Lodge, is a wordplay on and  rhyming.

Proper noun

 * 1) Kwajalein atoll.
 * 2) Kwajalein island, Kwajalein atoll.

Etymology
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