X How to pronounce Timbuktu

On the Editorial page of today's Daily Mirror (27th May 2013) someone had
wanted to know the correct pronunciation of TIMBUKTU.

He said he had thought it was pronounced as TIMBUCKTOO but he had heard SLBC
Radio Announcer, Nihal Bharetti pronouncing it as TIMBOOKTOO.
He wanted to know which was correct.

The following illustrates the correct pronunciation.

I could send it to the Daily Mirror but I am sure they would not publish it
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"Tim and I a hunting went,
Met three tarts in a pop-up tent.
They were three and we were two,
So, I bucked one and Tim bucked two"