AUDIO: THIS YEAR’S MOST MISPRONOUNCED NAMES
Babbel, a language-learning app, has released a list of the vocabulary most mispronounced by US newscasters and other on-air personalities this year.
– US soccer player Megan Rapinoe (ruh-PEE-noh)
– Site of the 1986 nuclear disaster, Chernobyl (chair-nOHble)
– Environmental activist Greta Thunberg (grAY-tah tOOn-bairk)
– Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg (pEEt bUt-ij-ij).
– Notre Dame Cathedral (nOH-truh dAHm)
– Actor Rami Malek (rAH-mee mA-lik)
– Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (rE-jep tAH-yep AIR-doh-wahn)
– Tekashi 6ix9ine (te-kAH-shee siks naYn).
– Marie Kondo’s favored term, Tokimeku (toh-kee-mE-koo)
* Yeah, well that’s not how we pronounce it around here.
* Notre DAME is Notre DAHM? Damn!
* I guess Babbel thinks no one watched “Chernobyl” on HBO.
* And has anybody ever heard of this Rami Malek guy?
* Thanks Babble – IF that’s how you pronounce your name.
CLIP: Our classic “World’s Hardest-To-Pronounce Composers” parody spot.
