How to Pronounce Singapore

Word Pronunciation: sing-guh-pawr

Commonly mispronounced as: Sing-ga-pore

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Definition:

  1. A small island-state in South-East Asia just south of the Malay Peninsular
  2. An independent republic comprising this island and a few adjacent islets: member of the Commonwealth of Nations
  3. A seaport in and the capital of this republic. 1,400,000.

Sentence: Singapore is well-known as the Garden City.