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Even if you mispronounce the words, it's the gesture that counts.

She is one of them, even if they mispronounce her name.

Alex Wilhelm: I mean Thomas … I'm going to mispronounce his last name.

I actually don't know, I mispronounce everything — AMLG: How's your blockchain French?

I mispronounce or stumble over words — anastomosis, extravasation, Gastrografin — that seem foreign.

"I could watch Tiffany Haddish mispronounce names all morning," said writer Joe Berkowitz.

Here's the skinny: All that and we managed to mispronounce "EBITDA" a few times.

The first voter who asked him a question then proceeded to mispronounce his name.

Kasich himself jokes about his lack of name recognition, saying voters often mispronounce his last name.

And his folksiness, which led him to mispronounce words (a lot), appealed to your average Americans.

"This is brutal watching Tiffany Haddish mispronounce everything during these Oscar announcements," wrote morning DJ Abe Kanan.

The madness stops after I tell you that Ellen Degeneres… somehow... managed to mispronounce "Rae Sremmurd" again.

And at the Tonys, no one would dare mispronounce the name of Broadway's Queen of Green, Idina Menzel.

I wrote my name with an accent on the e, showing people in advance how to mispronounce it.

Regulars vacationing on the island off the coast of Massachusetts are familiar with Harris though sometimes mispronounce her name.

It breaks down over time as we condense words and mispronounce things and combine phrases and sounds from different places.

Often, grandparents wind up with some idiosyncratic or downright oddball name, based on what a small child can pronounce, or mispronounce.

The USCC then surveyed its employees to find the words they heard newscasters, reporters, and public personalities mispronounce throughout the year.

If you mispronounce someone, so if you say "he" when that person identifies as a she, you can get in big trouble.

Although Jif is obviously pronounced with a "soft G," people often mispronounce the word "GIF," which is short for Graphics Interchange Format.

Spicer has been known to slip up and mispronounce the names of many heads of state in press briefings and live TV interviews.

I think Mark likes to say it's based on his own personal love for, and I'm going to mispronounce this, Caravaggio, the paintings.

If you decide to give your character a name that's any longer than two syllables, you had better believe that people are going to mispronounce it.

It shows the first moment that Han (whose name we shall heretofore purposefully mispronounce in support of Lando) meets the most charming smuggler in all the galaxy.

"I wanted you to be at a lunch with your friend, and they mispronounce it and you say, 'No, it's Ouai,'" Atkin said at the launch event.

If you'd like to learn how to pronounce FO'C'SLE (because who wants to sound smart trying to explain what it is and then mispronounce it?), click here.

My final question then, before I descend quickly and fiercely into insanity, is this: How fucking badly did Ellen Degeneres have to mispronounce "Rae Sremmurd" the first time?

Michael Bublé, who I'm assuming most young people don't know a single thing about beyond that joke where you mispronounce his surname "bubbly" to the amusement of nobody.

If a French driver goes into Germany using driving directions voiced by Nuance Communications, the computer will mispronounce the name of a German town with a French accent.

It seems like that kind of commitment to his potential customers—even the ones who mispronounce 'croissant'—would be commended, but instead it attracted the attention of the local authorities.

If you ever happen to find yourself in the same room as Jake Gyllenhaal, you had better make damn sure you don't mispronounce the word "melancholy" in front of him.

There was, however, my friend's father, who found it amusing to make fun of my name over dinner, coming up with a wide variety of ways to mispronounce it each time.

When you grip your culture so tightly that it's sacrilegious to even comment on it, or mispronounce a video game character name in a slew of absurd fantasy names, you've ruined it.

The recipients paraded up to the podium area Tuesday after they were announced by a White House aide who managed to mispronounce the names of Mr. Redford, Bruce Springsteen and Cicely Tyson.

And while he didn't mispronounce Taylor Swift's name when she won, the internet still thinks he flubbed it by attempting to give the award to a member of her entourage instead of her.

Solo: A Star Wars Story — and, more specifically, Donald Glover — will pay homage to one of the more puzzling aspects of the original trilogy: Lando Calrissian and his unexplained ability to make everyone mispronounce Han's name.

"By highlighting these tricky-to-pronounce names, places and trends, we're not looking to shame those who mispronounce, but offer an understanding of language and culture which is key to unlocking many aspects of society," she said.

Look, when you're a news anchor spending hours every day live on the air, you're occasionally going say the wrong thing or mispronounce a name, and it'll happen in the middle of a tragic news story, and you just have to soldier on.

The correct term is la durée , another word I mispronounce though once I passed a lovely durée riding my rented Vélib' from the Seine to the Sacré-Coeur, where had I planned in advance I could have spent the night in adoration.

The young Housman was a know-it-all, who refused to have anything to do with his tutor after hearing the man mispronounce a Greek word, and even took a dim view of Benjamin Jowett, the famous master of Balliol and the greatest Greek scholar of the day.

He knows it, too, which is why while presenting the Video of the Year award with Queen Latifah at Monday night's MTV Video Music Awards Travolta said, "I shouldn't do this because I'll just mispronounce s**t and f**k it up," before handing the envelope to her.

To mispronounce a word because it is misspelt is only indirectly an error of orthoepy.

When Tsongas ran for office, out of concern that people would mispronounce his last name, there were bumper stickers saying "Tsenator Tsongas".

Mr. Herrera has shown mutual dislike for the boys, especially when they mispronounce his name and their inability to speak proper Spanish in his class.

However, 驛 has fallen out of usage to in modern Cantonese and become obsolete. Therefore, it is not uncommon to mispronounce as its phonetic compound (Jyutping: cek3;)).

Inspired by Donald Trump's tendency to mispronounce words, Jimmy selects three random members of the audience to see whether they can guess how the President will mispronounce a single word. Once selected, Jimmy would show a clip of Trump speaking, and then he would ask the audience member to guess how he will say a word in the clip. Whether they get the answer correct or incorrect, Jimmy gives them a shirt with the mispronounced word spelt on it as a prize for participating in the game.

20th Century Fox. An original idea for Skinner was that he would continually mispronounce words. He does this in the series premiere "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire", but the idea was later dropped.Groening, Matt. (2001).

"Nack, William. The Wrecking Yard, Sports Illustrated, May 7, 2001, accessed November 23, 2010. In 2001 while he was a broadcaster with the MSG Network he said, "I would mispronounce words and lose my train of thought. Things would happen, and at times I'd think I was going crazy.

It had a 3-year run. Former RTÉ Radio 1 broadcaster Gay Byrne praised Jennings' pronunciation. Writing in The Irish Times in 2004 he named Jennings along with three other RTÉ journalists who do not mispronounce words. He was present at the 25th anniversary celebrations for Morning Ireland in November 2009.

The Supply Sergeant makes the mistake of pronouncing Joliet as Jolly-et, a mistake a person from Joliet would not make. (An antiquated law, still on the books, actually prohibits such a pronunciation and establishes Joe-lee-ET as the correct pronunciation)."Don't mispronounce 'Joliet' or you're breaking the law," FOX32.com (Nov.

She believes that each match reduces her weight by a few kg. People often mispronounce her surname. ;Oda Mari :Nicknamed "Marilyn", she is the least serious of the Mitsuba judo club and is mostly seen preening for the camera. Often attracting men's attentions and sometimes molesters, she joins judo to fend them off.

Austin was born in Tarzana, California, and raised in nearby Palos Verdes. She has Serbian ancestry through maternal grandparents born in Serbia. Austin also has a younger sister Kristy Williams and three younger brothers. As a small child, her brother would mispronounce her name, saying "Cole Cole" or "Co-co" in place of "Nicole".

By 2002, the association of chardonnay with suburban, unsophisticated tastes was being explored in Australian TV show Kath & Kim, where lower middle class characters mispronounce the varietal as 'kardonnay'. Despite the backlash, Chardonnay remains very popular. In 2004 Chardonnay was estimated to be the world's 6th most widely grown grape variety, covering .Robinson, 2006, p.

The lone short story in the book, "The Commercial" is an essay of a black baseball player who is given an advertising deal. Initially, the athlete believes the commercial will help establish him as more than a black athlete, but instead the advertisers want him to mispronounce words, thus dehumanizing him despite his success.

A native Swedish speaker might mispronounce generate as by following the pattern of the Swedish . Swedish is a pitch accent language. Accent 1 is a low-high-low contour and accent 2 is a high-low-high-low contour, with the second peak in the second syllable. This can give Swenglish speakers a "singing" quality to their speech.

"'The Hawk Chronicles' brings new life to an old art form," The Baltimore Sun, June 4, 2016. "It's a fun show to put together, but it can also be very frustrating," Long has said. Directorless actors occasionally mispronounce names and overstretch deadlines.Kaltenbach, Chris. "'The Hawk Chronicles' brings new life to an old art form," The Baltimore Sun, June 4, 2016.

As a rookie for the Cubs, he hit 3 home runs in his first 6 games. After catcher Damon Berryhill returned from shoulder surgery, Villanueva became the number-three receiver on the team. He drew a cult-like following while he was in Chicago some in part was due to the comedic way Harry Carey would mispronounce his name. He ended his rookie season with a .

In addition to hard and soft , the digraph represents when followed by or (as in crescendo and fascia). Meanwhile, in Italian represents , not , but English-speakers commonly mispronounce it as due to familiarity with the German pronunciation. Italian uses to indicate the gemination of before , , or before or . English does not usually geminate consonants and therefore loanwords with soft are pronounced with as with cappuccino, pronounced .

Mexia ( ) is a city in Limestone County, Texas, United States. The population was 7,459 at the 2010 census. The city's motto, based on the fact that outsiders tend to mispronounce the name , is "A great place to live, no matter how you pronounce it." Named after General José Antonio Mexía, a Mexican hero for the Republic of Texas Army during the Texas Revolution, the town was founded near his estate.

Two weeks before the film debuted in theaters, "Who is Keyser Söze?" posters appeared at bus stops, and TV spots told people how to say the character's name. Despite these efforts, all the actors in the film consistently mispronounce his name as "Soze" instead of "Söze". Singer wanted the music for the boat heist to resemble Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1. The ending's music was based on a k.d.

A somewhat dopey character, who has a tendency to use malapropisms and to mispronounce common words. He has a teddy bear in his bunk and is quite mild-mannered. It is not entirely clear why he is the mate, as he does not appear to have any authority over the rest of the crew. He was present in the first ever Pugwash story, in which he was depicted as being constantly sleepy.

"It's easy to mispronounce this Passaic County borough as HAL-eh-don. But residents know the town as HAIL- don.") is a borough in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough's population was 8,417, reflecting an increase of 497 (+6.3%) from the 7,920 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn declined by 67 (-0.8%) from the 7,987 counted in the 1990 Census.

Roommates George and Gil are in their 70s and have strong New York accents, and they frequently mispronounce common words and names. For example, they refer to Ashton Kutcher's show Punk'd as Prank'd; Johnny Knoxville as Johnny Nashville, and Candid Camera as Candy Camera. They also frequently put the stress on the wrong syllables of words, especially in iambic fashion. For example, pronouncing Broadway as "Broadway" and junk mail as "junk mail".

Other characters had catchphrases that were almost as famous as Claghorn's, such as Titus Moody's "Howdy, Bub", and Falstaff Openshaw's "That is precisely why I am here." Mrs. Nussbaum always greeted Allen by saying, "You were expecting maybe...", and then she would mispronounce the name of a glamorous film star, such as "...Tulalulalula Bankhead?". The Alley sketches made only one further cast change, when Peter Donald's chipper Irishman Ajax Cassidy succeeded Reed's Falstaff.

In the 1990s TV series Beverly Hills, 90210, Brandon Walsh (Jason Priestley) and Brenda Walsh (Shannen Doherty) moved to California from Wayzata. In the show, both characters mispronounce Wayzata as "Way-za-da." In the 1996 film Fargo, Jerry Lundegaard intends to purchase a parking lot in Wayzata. Much of the 1999 film Drop Dead Gorgeous (starring Kirsten Dunst, Kirstie Alley, Denise Richards, Allison Janney, Ellen Barkin, Brittany Murphy, and Amy Adams) was filmed in Wayzata.

Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream has the story of Pyramus and Thisbe as a play-within-a-play. The actors constantly mispronounce the location "Ninus' Tomb" as "Ninny's Tomb," though they are corrected initially, and in vain, by "director" Peter Quince. The story of Ninus and Semiramis is taken up in a different form in a 1st-century AD Hellenistic romance called the Ninus Romance, the Novel of Ninus and Semiramis, or the Ninus Fragments.Daphnis and Chloe.

Khiji Chandeshwari खिँजी/खिँचि, Chandeshowar mispronounce Chandeshwari or Original Name Khiji (jee/chee/ji) and Chandi-Showar became Chandeshwari खिजी चण्डेश्वरी is a village development committee in Okhaldhunga District in the Sagarmatha Zone of mid-eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census it had a population of 3001 living in 590 individual households.. Khiji or Khijee and Khichee (खिँजी-खिँचि) is same tone. Is Koich (Sunuwar language), 1\. Khichi/khijee (खिँजी-खिँचि) Name of Father Koich(Sunuwar) सुनुवार जाति 2\.

Abby was at first cold to Ziva David when the latter first arrived at NCIS as she, like the rest of the team, was still grieving over Kate Todd's death and the fact that Ziva was Ari Haswari's half-sister. Abby would scribble over pictures of Ziva and frequently mispronounce her surname to annoy her. Later, upset by Ziva's calm response to Gibbs being injured in a bombing, Abby slapped her. Abby eventually came around, and Ziva and she became good friends.

The Albanian form is Stamboll; the Spanish form is Estambul; the Portuguese form is Istambul, with an m instead of an n; the Hungarian form is Isztambul with an extra z because if it was omitted, Hungarians would mispronounce the name as "Ishtanbul". Armenian uses Bolis, based on the Greek Poli(s) 'City'. Icelandic preserves the old Norse name Mikligarður, though the form Istanbúl is generally used. In Slovene Carigrad is still largely used and often preferred over the official name.

The English word Laos was coined by the French, who united the three Lao kingdoms in French Indochina in 1893 and named the country as the plural of the dominant and most common ethnic group, the Lao people. English- speakers often mispronounce the word 'Laos', falsely believing that it should be pronounced with a silent 's', however the 's' in Laos should not be silent. In the Lao language, the country's name is Muang Lao () or Pathet Lao (), both of which literally mean 'Lao Country'.

Zeus would shout "aw aw" and pound on his chest during interviews and matches, and sometimes mispronounce wrestler's names, such as referring to Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake as "Beefcake Barber". Eventually, Zeus demanded Hogan face him in the ring. Citing jealousy for being billed under Hogan and anger over losing to Hogan in the movie, Zeus now wanted to beat him in "real life". Zeus formed an alliance with fellow Hogan rival "Macho Man" Randy Savage to feud with Hogan and his friend, Brutus Beefcake.

He was therefore initially unhappy about the recording but has since grown to be fond of the song. According to Chas Hodges of Chas & Dave, they persuaded Ardiles to sing his solo part as "in de cup for Tottingham" even though by then Ardiles already knew how to pronounce "Tottenham". He continued to deliberately mispronounce the name as "Tottingham", which would be the cause of ribbing by his teammate, and it remains a source of amusement many years later as revealed by Mauricio Pochettino.

The name "Amandala" is adapted from the Xhosa/Zulu word "amandla", which means "power". Editors felt that Belizeans might mispronounce the word, so they added an extra "a" after the "d". Amandala editors often like to say the word means "power to the people", although the correct term for that is "Amandla, Ngawethu". The phrase occurs in English throughout the newspaper, most often in the Editorial and in publisher Evan X Hyde's column; however, it may appear in advertisements in the original African language.

Simmons was born in Milwaukee and grew up as a fan of the Philadelphia Athletics. In the fourth grade, he received a spanking from his father for insisting that he wanted to play professional baseball. When he persisted in asserting his desire to be a baseball player, his father replied that he had better become a good player. Simmons was known by his birth last name (Szymanski) until he was playing for a local minor league team and he was tired of hearing people mispronounce it.

The film began when Philip Lyall, a long-time friend of Markvoort, introduced her to his University of British Columbia film school partner Nimisha Mukerji. Lyall and Mukerji had been looking for a post-graduation project and decided to chronicle Markvoort's wait for a double-lung transplant. They named the film 65_Redroses after Eva's online identity, which she had chosen because, according to the Canadian cystic fibrosis community, "sixty-five roses" is how many young children with the disease mispronounce "cystic fibrosis". Eva added 'red' because it was her favourite colour.

Etymologically, this surname is thought to derive from Latin (Italian , Old Italian or dialect esposito), which is the past participle of the Latin verb exponere ("to place outside", "to expose") and literally means "placed outside", "exposed".Ottorino Pianigiani, Vocabolario etimologico della lingua italiana, di Ottorino Pianigiani, Roma-Milano, Società editrice Dante Alighieri di Albrighi, Segati e c., 1907 In accordance with the original Latin form, the name is correctly pronounced stressing the antepenultimate syllable (i.e. ); however, it is common among English-speakers to mispronounce it as , placing the stress on the penultimate.

A running joke of the show is Ted's incompetence, featuring a steady stream of mispronunciations, malapropisms, pratfalls, and miscues. Constantly in fear of being fired, Ted is, ironically, the show's only character to survive the final episode's massive layoffs at WJM. In the first few seasons of the show, Knight played the character broadly for comic effect, a simpleton who would mispronounce even the easiest words while on camera. Knight grew so concerned that the show's writers were abusing the character that at one point he considered leaving "MTM".

"Love Gets Me Every Time" was written by Twain and her then husband Robert John "Mutt" Lange, and produced solely by Lange. Twain developed the song at first and brought it to Lange under the title "'Gol Darn Gone and Done It", which derived from a country expression Twain had heard of. The name made Lange burst in laughter when he first heard it, and the couple completed the song together. However, executives at Mercury Records Nashville were concerned that radio DJs would mispronounce the title's tongue twisting words when announcing the single.

It is now commonly accepted that children use some form of perceptual distributional learning, by which categories are discovered by clumping similar instances of an input stimulus, to form phonetic categories early in life. Developing children have been found to be effective judges of linguistic authority, screening the input they model their language on by shifting their attention less to speakers who mispronounce words. Infants also use statistical tracking to calculate the likelihood that particular phonemes will follow each other. Romberg, Alexa R and Sarron, Jenny R. (2010).

Hal Gurnee (born January 25, 1935, in New York, New York, U.S.) is an American television director who directed all of the television shows hosted by David Letterman on NBC. Gurnee directed the NBC daytime program The David Letterman Show, then moved with Letterman to Late Night with David Letterman in 1982. Gurnee himself would often be heard or appear on the show, when Letterman would call on him in the control room to facilitate a comedy segment. When introducing him, Letterman would deliberately stumble over and mispronounce his last name (e.g.

To those she meets, she is invariably polite and answers questions directly. ; : :Hermes is a talking Brough Superior motorcycle and is Kino's loyal companion; although it can be reluctant sometimes, it faithfully accompanies Kino in her travels. The relationship between Kino and Hermes is presented as symbiotic—as explained in the Land of Adults where Hermes provides speed, and Kino provides balance. In the first couple of episodes of the anime and almost all of the chapters in the novels, it has a tendency to mispronounce words and phrases.

Davis also stated that Hooper's Store, which he called "an idealized social institution", is an extension of Mr. Hooper's personality. Mr. Hooper has a special relationship with the Muppet character Big Bird, who would often come into Hooper's Store for a birdseed milkshake and a chat. A running gag in the show was that Big Bird would often mispronounce Mr. Hooper's name, although most attempts ended in "ooper," such as "Looper" or "Cooper". Mr. Hooper's first name, Harold, was not revealed until the character earned a GED during night school.

He will often mispronounce words, such as champagne ("sham-PAGG-Enn") and guacamole ("GWACK-a-mole") in the episodes "Love's Labours Lost in Space" and "The Problem with Popplers" (respectively). Soon after first meeting him, Leela has sex with him out of pity. He mentions this encounter repeatedly in later episodes while remaining convinced that Leela lusts after him despite her vocal (and often violent) opposition to the idea. He is known to make catastrophic mistakes (such as destroying D.O.O.P. headquarters in "Brannigan, Begin Again"), yet, in the public eye, he is seen as an established and reputable leader of the Earth's army (Bender's Big Score, among others).

One of the best known sketches featured the cast "going out for an English" after a few lassis. They continually mispronounce the waiter's name, order the blandest thing on the menu (apart from one of them, who opts for the stronger option of a steak and kidney pie) and ask for 24 plates of chips. The sketch parodies English people "going out for an Indian" after drinking heavily, being rude to the waiter, demanding the spiciest thing available on the menu for show and ordering far too many papadums. This sketch was voted the 6th Greatest Comedy Sketch on a Channel 4 list show.

The elderly Brother Eyer habitually occupied the "amen corner", where the most vocally devout worshipers congregated, in a "fashionable church" with a "stylish congregation". But: His voice was cracked and broken; age had touched his vocal cords. And nearly every Sunday he would mispronounce the words Of the hymns, and 'twas no wonder; he was old and nearly blind, And the choir rattling onward always left him far behind. The chorus stormed and blustered, Brother Eyer sang too slow, And then he used the tunes in vogue a hundred years ago; At last the storm cloud burst and the church was told, in fine, That the brother must stop singing, or the choir would resign.

Francophones speaking English often pronounce / instead of /, and some also pronounce for the phoneme , and some mispronounce some words, some pronounce a full vowel instead of a schwa, such as for message. Since French-speakers greatly outnumber English-speakers in most regions of Quebec, it is more common to hear French in public. Some Anglophones in overwhelmingly- Francophone areas use some of the features (especially the replacement of and by [t] and [d]), but their English is remarkably similar to that of other varieties of English in Canada (Poplack, Walker, & Malcolmson 2006 Shana Poplack, James Walker & Rebecca Malcolmson (2006) An English "like no other"?: Language contact and change in Quebec. Canadian Journal of Linguistics. 185–213.).

The Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps was started in 1948 by Don Warren, Scoutmaster of Boy Scout Troop 111 in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood after being impressed by the Racine Scouts. Dressed in traditional Scout uniforms embellished with shoulder braids and white gloves, the corps was a parade corps until 1950. In 1949, the corps found an additional sponsor in the American Legion Thaddeus Kosciuszko Post 712 of Chicago's Little Warsaw neighborhood; rather than mispronounce the name, the corps members shortened it to K-712. This sponsorship allowed the corps to purchase "new" uniforms; 100% wool U.S. Army surplus dress shirts and pants dyed midnight blue, worn fully buttoned and with puttees.

Part of the episode revolves around the practice of religious male circumcision in Judaism, and the related ceremony called the brit milah or bris, and the boys' misunderstanding of the tradition. The boys believe that circumcision entails the cutting off of one's penis, which they refer to by the childish colloquial term "wee wee", except for Cartman, who insists on calling it "fireman". Cannabis is also referred to by various names, including weed, grass, pot, and marijuana, in which Mr. Mackey constantly pronounces the letter j as (as in jam), which makes Kyle mispronounce the drug as "marry-Jew wanna". Drug use is often portrayed in conjunction with the hippie subculture, through hippie characters, such as the two teenagers that give LSD to Mackey, and the woman that he befriends and eventually marries.

But Specter ran a campaign that was praised by political analysts for being almost flawless. Despite Yeakel's personal wealth, her inexperience in politics led to fund raising problems; in turn, Specter ran television ads long before the Democrat. The moderate Specter portrayed Yeakel, despite her liberal attitude, as a member of an elitist blue-blood family; he emphasized her father's votes against the Civil Rights Act of 1964 while in Congress, her affiliation with an all-white country club, and her church's minister's vocal criticism of the Israeli government. Despite her mistakes, including a frequent tendency to mispronounce the names of places in which she was campaigning, Yeakel continued to perform solidly, and on Election Day, she captured by large numbers the traditional Democratic strongholds of the state, such as Pittsburgh, Scranton, and Erie.

How long the silent period lasts depends on the skills of the learner in terms of comprehension ability and general cognitive skills, as someone who is a quick study may be able to quickly grasp the basic concepts of a new language faster than others. During the silent period, the new language learner will try as much as possible to understand what the words mean and how to pronounce them. The disadvantage of this type of approach is that some people who are not very confident might decide to wait until they feel that they have totally grasped the concepts of the language, including the correct pronunciation, before attempting to speak that language. This may be due to a reluctance to mispronounce the words or to misapply the language while attempting to speak it.

In the 1984 pre-season, Hogeboom completed 18 out of 32 attempts for 255 yards, one touchdown and no interceptions, compared to White's 46 out of 83 attempts for 609 yards, 3 touchdowns and 4 interceptions. On August 28, he was named the starter during a press conference where head coach Tom Landry began by announcing that offensive tackle Phil Pozderac would be the starter, only to catch the error and mispronounce the last name by saying "Hogenbloom". Hogeboom started out well, completing 33 passes (club record) for 343 yards and one touchdown in a season opening win on Monday night on national TV against the Los Angeles Rams. However, in the next game against the New York Giants, linebacker Lawrence Taylor sacked him four times and the Cowboys lost, 28-7.

In 1969, a platoon of soldiers fight in Vietnam, ending with a soldier dying on a helicopter. As they prepare to be sent into action again, a platoon of the 3d Battalion, 187th Infantry, 101st Airborne Division (Airmobile), receives five new recruits as replacements—Beletsky, who constantly complains that he won't be able to remember everything he has been taught; Languilli, who is obsessed with sex and annoyed when people mispronounce his name; Washburn, a quiet, conservative man and the only African-American in the batch of replacements; Bienstock, who is outgoing and has volunteered for combat duty in Vietnam; and finally Galvan, the quietest but most promising of the new soldiers. Taken under the wing of their war-weary squad leader, Staff Sgt. Adam Frantz, the recruits spend their early days filling sand bags and struggling to sleep before being placed in Frantz's squad.

Sabre has taken over the branches of Dunder Mifflin and Gabe Lewis (Zach Woods), the coordinating director for emerging regions from Sabre, is going around greeting the branches. When Gabe arrives, Michael Scott (Steve Carell) has everyone greet him with a standing ovation and Andy Bernard (Ed Helms) and Erin Hannon (Ellie Kemper) sing a Scranton-themed version of "Party in the U.S.A." by Miley Cyrus and mispronounce "Sabre" (as sah-bray), per Michael's assumption that that was the correct pronunciation. In a conference room meeting, Gabe shows a video of Florida-based printer sales company Sabre starring Christian Slater and then shares some of the company's new policies, including the use of reusable drink containers, fewer vacation weeks, and site blocking of time-wasting sites like YouTube and Twitter, which is done in the background by IT assistant Nick (Nelson Franklin). Michael is resistant to the changes and requests a meeting with Gabe's superiors.