Chappell Roan gave fans a friendly "final warning" about the pronunciation of hers. And Zendaya settled the matter on video.
All three helped to define 2024 and spent the year hearing people get their names wrong; each appears on lists of the year's most mispronounced words in the US and UK, produced by the language-learning website Babbel, which reminds us that they're pronounced COM-a-la HAR-iss, CHAP-uhl ROHN and Zen-DAY-a.
The lists, created with the closed-captioning and subtitling companies the Captioning Group and the British Institute of Verbatim Reporters, show the stars in good company: among the other mispronounced names and words are Barry Keoghan (BARR-ee key-OH-gin, with a hard g), the Irish actor and star of Saltburn, and Pete Buttigieg (Boot-Edge-Edge), the US transportation secretary.
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ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة December 06, 2024 من The Guardian.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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