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HOW TO PRONOUNCE

albuquerque

/ˈælbəkɚki/

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Stress AL at the beginning.

Use four syllables, keeping the middle two light. The final que sounds like kee.

4 syllables · Stress on syllable 1

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We stopped in Albuquerque on our way west.

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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary

What does albuquerque mean?

proper noun

  1. A surname from Spanish.
  2. The largest city in New Mexico, United States; the county seat of Bernalillo County.

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈælbəkɚki/

Pronunciation used in the listening tip.

CMU Pronouncing Dictionary

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Two B-29 aircraft from Kirtland Field, Albuquerque, New Mexico, participated in post-shot events.
Carl R. Maag; Steve RohrerProject Trinity, 1945-1946Project Gutenberg ebook #548
About the beginning of the sixteenth century, Albuquerque the "Terrible" revived the scheme of turning the Nile into the Red Sea, with the hope of destroying the transit trade through Egypt by way of Kosseir.
George P. (George Perkins) MarshThe Earth as Modified by Human ActionProject Gutenberg ebook #6019
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He never wrote to his wife; but she would soon begin to get newspapers from La Junta, Albuquerque, Chihuahua, with marked paragraphs announcing that Juan Tellamantez and his wonderful mandolin could be heard at the Jack Rabbit Grill, or the Pearl of Cadiz Saloon.
Willa CatherThe Song of the LarkProject Gutenberg ebook #44
Two years later, in an attempt to destroy the unused Jumbo before it and its 12 million dollar cost came to the attention of a congressional investigating committee, Manhattan Project Director General Groves ordered two junior officers from the Special Weapons Division at Sandia Army Base in Albuquerque to test Jumbo.
National Atomic Museum (U.S.)Trinity SiteProject Gutenberg ebook #277