One of my favourite comedian is Trevor Noah. According to him South African pronounce zebra as zebra not zibra
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fht2v-SnJKs
here's a link to the pronunciation of zebra
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/british/zebra
Usually, South African vowel shift are like New Zealander
example, they would pronounce expect as ixpict, respect as rispict, pen as pin and deck as ....... I need to censor that.
Apparently, zebra is the reverse of these vowel shifts.
Heyyyy... I'm gonna miss my bestie's Kiwi accent. (If she were in Hollywood, she could coach those actors with foreign accent... southern, Kiwi, Oz, Brits... you name it)
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