How to pronounce “hit the rock” in English

record of a ship actually hitting it." And so, what we have hypothesized was that a ship actually probably saw waves out there and the story became conflated over time thatit actually hit the rock. So then the question came to me, "Okay. So was there any earlier record?" And interestingly enough a guy named James Alden, who was a commander with theCoast Survey, a real world traveler. He had visited -- he traveled all over the world aboard the U.S.S. Constitution. When the Mexican American War started in the 1840s, Alden was