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					Originally Posted by  issybird
					 
				 
				It sounds just plain wrong to me in American English! I have never heard anyone actually say "kway." To me, it's a backward justification for how people who don't know better think it's pronounced, because they've only ever seen it. 
			
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 Well, regardless of how it came about, the folks at Merriam-Webster apparently have decided to accept the pronunciation as legit.