Babbel, a language-learning app, released a list of the most mispronounced[1] words in 2020, according to US Captioning Company employees. Notable names like Kamala Harris, Anthony Fauci, and Giannis Antetokounmpo made the list. People also struggled to pronounce Yosemite National Park and Nevada. Visit Insider’s homepage for more stories[2]. Mispronouncing words is common, but this year, some words caused more...
Democratic candidate for United States Senate Jon Ossoff is outraged that one of his opponents mispronounced Harris’ name at a campaign rally this week. Ossoff, who will appear on the ballot against Libertarian Shane Hazel and Republican David Perdue on November 3rd, said Friday that Perdue’s mispronunciation was ‘vile’ and ‘race baiting’ trash talk. The clip attached with the press...
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October 17, 2020 “Kamala-mala-mala-whatever” Reports say Perdue “nearly overshadowed” Trump’s entire visit to GA as he tries to save his and Perdue’s campaigns ATLANTA — Senator Perdue is in hot water for yet another bigoted remark after making a “cheap, racist joke”[1] at yesterday’s Macon, GA rally for President Trump by “derisively mispronouncing”[2] Senator Kamala Harris’ name in an attempt...
The great pronunciation debate has been reignited T he Graphics Interchange Format, or GIF , was first developed by computer scientist working at CompuServe back in 1987. And while it has swelled or dipped, the debate over how to pronounce the acronym for those minute looping animations became a thing once the GIF really took off. Is it a hard...
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