The only snag was he mispronounced the singer's second name.
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Gilbert mispronounced the last names of Haines, Bila, and Hostin.
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But I'm more likely to have my last name mispronounced.
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Fateh spoke decent English, wincing when he thought he'd mispronounced something.
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Or, that you had mispronounced the name of the popular Hawaiian dance.
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In my mind, I knew I mispronounced, but there was no malice.
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In my mind I knew I mispronounced, but there was no malice.
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He's mispronounced several words: StatuTe instead of statue, peNtupant instead of petulant, etc.
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In our story about the tribute to Dr. King, I unfortunately mispronounced his name.
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She always slightly mispronounced his name — "Kaan"— her own dreamy, broken version of it.
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My mother Yeran, whose name my classmates gleefully mispronounced as urine, could become Jasmine.
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He toys with language, favoring malaprops and mispronounced words (he has a ball with "ferret").
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He was caught when a hospital worker noticed that he repeatedly mispronounced basic medical terms.
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This court rules: Mira, a name meaning "wonderful," and one that has never been mispronounced.
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Babbel, a language-learning app, released its list of the most mispronounced words in 2019.
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I mispronounced "shoes," and Alexa asked me if I wanted her to buy me a shirt.
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The first time, he pointed out that, like so many people, I had mispronounced his name.
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After the debate, Mr. Wofford said he noticed that Ms. James had repeatedly mispronounced his name.
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He may have mispronounced some words, but there was not a dry eye among the family.
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Our classmates often mispronounced our names, which led to taunting — particularly after the tragedy of Sept.
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Here's how to say all the words you mispronounced in 2019 It's "Buttigieg," not "Buttigieg," OK?
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Wrong. It turns out "iconic" and "globally-recognized" can sometimes directly correlate to iconically and globally mispronounced.
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But when solving the puzzle out loud, he mispronounced the word "Flamenco" — reading it as "Flamingo" instead.
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At one meeting, Trump allegedly mispronounced Nepal as "nipple" and Bhutan as "button," two sources told Politico.
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At the 2014 Oscars, John Travolta mispronounced Idina Menzel's name as "Adele Dazeem" when he introduced her.
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But she heard inaccuracies as politicians spoke about her colleagues — a mispronounced name here, an incorrect fact there.
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She later gave an interview in which she named Mexico's president correctly, though she mispronounced his first name.
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He also spent time making fun of of South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg over his oft-mispronounced last name.
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When asked by a teacher what he was drawing, the boy, struggling to say the long word, mispronounced it.
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His initial, lukewarm endorsement of Bush — during which, inexplicably, he mispronounced his vice president's last name — was not auspicious.
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Which leads to the second, more important question: Does this mean that Kanye West mispronounced "zine" until someone corrected him?
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While Cordeiro introduced Rapinoe at the trophy celebration at City Hall in New York City, he mispronounced Rapinoe's last name.
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We're having premonitions of Wrighty being bullied into doing a naked cartwheel in the studio, because he's mispronounced 'Granit Xhaka'.
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The characters whose faces we had only pictured, whose names we had contently mispronounced, were about to become immortalized on screen.
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And hearing this language lisped through braces, with the odd word mispronounced as if read but never before said, is clarifying.
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It has since been retweeted over 8,000 times, as other black South Africans share their exasperation at their names being mispronounced.
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Carlos Cordeiro, the president of U.S. Soccer, mispronounced Megan Rapinoe's name at the U.S. Women's National Team's World Cup trophy parade.
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There is an economy to being a person, de la Torre writes in her poem $6.82: My economy is broken, mispronounced.
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Still, the story's details and absurdities clearly have personal resonance for Mr. Guare, whose name could easily be mispronounced as Gowery.
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Neither seems particularly interested in music: DC Young Fly mispronounced Dua Lipa, and Mr. Rife fumbled A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie.
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Saoirse Ronan doesn't owe the public a damn thing after we've consistently mispronounced her name for the entirety of her delightful career.
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Malaprop, when she shall treat me, as long as she chooses, with her select words so ingeniously misapplied, without being mispronounced. Mrs.
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He was called out for wisecracks about basement-dwelling gamers (fair), mispronounced names and a perceived lack of familiarity with Blizzard's games.
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There are currently 23 major Democratic candidates running for president in 2020, and many of their names are frequently mispronounced or mangled.
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Adding fuel the fire, Cordeiro also mispronounced star player and co-captain Megan Rapinoe's name during his speech, which drew criticism online.
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"Louis Vuitton — a name I know very well," Mr. Trump said to laughter, even as he mispronounced the name he knows well.
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When Mary was a baby, her brother, Tom, who was a year or so older, mispronounced her name as "La," and it stuck.
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If Mr. Grisales mispronounced a word, he would write out how to say it, which syllables to emphasize, what words it rhymed with.
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There are currently 103 Democratic candidates running for president in 2020 so far, and many of their names are frequently mispronounced or mangled.
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He became Clancy when, while working as a stock boy at a department store, a boss with a speech impediment mispronounced his name.
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Here is Babbel's list of the top 10 mispronounced words in 2017, complete with how to say them so you don't keep butchering them.
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My mother exhibited disdain for people who mispronounced the names of great artists and composers; for instance, omitting the middle-T sound from Mozart.
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During the 2016 campaign, Trump also mispronounced the name of Tanzania, an eastern African nation, during his first foreign policy address as a candidate.
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At least one person was happy: President Trump, who mocked Mr. Curbelo (whose name he mispronounced as "Cue-bella") for failing to embrace him.
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A spokesman for Youngspiration said the refusal to accept its lawmakers' oaths was "illegal" and dismissed claims they had deliberately mispronounced any of the words.
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Even so, I remember being struck by the general weirdness of seeing them up there, those familiar-looking Icelandic faces with their mispronounced Icelandic names.
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If you want to see how our national focus has changed through the words that confused us most, check out last year's most mispronounced words.
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He recalled how he stumbled over and mispronounced several words while delivering his dissent from the bench in the case of Citizens United v. FEC.
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For those who don't remember, the superstar famously mispronounced Tony Award-winning actress/singer Idina Menzel on the Oscars stage as "Adele Dazeem" in 2014.
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In my life, my name has been mispronounced more often than it's been pronounced properly, and yet, for the longest time, I didn't bother correcting anyone.
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Today, the pressure to assimilate is still prevalent, but less obvious and implemented in subtle ways, like being denied opportunities or constantly having your name mispronounced.
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I prefer "Meera" as a tribute of sorts to George R.R. Martin and his character of the same name — and because the name cannot be mispronounced.
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Indeed, outside of the hockey world, the school is mostly known for political polls, even if, when cited, its name is often mispronounced Kwin-uh-PEE-ack.
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Not that he doesn't try, grasping for childhood anecdotes like the time in second grade that he mispronounced Niger and spurred a classroom lecture on civil rights.
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Vaping is so new to the American scene that the 77-year-old McConnell mispronounced it a couple of times, although he didn't struggle to detail its dangers.
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" Namibia (nah-mih-bee-ah): The southwest African nation was mentioned in a speech by President Trump to the United Nations, where he mispronounced the country as "Nambia.
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He once explained that his nickname was likely born when a classmate teased him after he mispronounced the name of a goalie who played with his father: Bilé.
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He once explained that his nickname was probably born when a classmate teased him after he mispronounced the name of a goalie who played with his father: Bilé.
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While an incorrect transcription or mispronounced word from Siri can be an inconvenience to a hearing person, to someone with a hearing impairment, this can be a disservice.
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In a final, brash display of his stunning disconnectedness from the youths of America, presidential candidate Donald J. Trump has mispronounced the name of a goddamned national icon: Beyoncé.
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Babbel, a language-learning app, commissioned the US Captioning Company — the organization responsible for creating the subtitles for live television events — to find the most mispronounced words of 2019.
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"Operation Restore Regasi", a play crudely satirising the Mugabes, sold out repeatedly earlier this year (the name parodies an army commander who mispronounced Operation Restore Legacy, the coup's code-name).
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When King Salman spoke in Sharm el-Sheikh in February, he lost his place in his text and mispronounced words — embarrassing moments that were broadcast live across the Arab world.
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Notably, one document tells contractors to transcribe a word as "Cortana" even if the user mispronounced Cortana as, say, "Cortona" or "Cortina," because, Microsoft believes, activating Cortana was the intent.
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Maybe those clunky initials will become part of the sporting lexicon, shorthand for a monumental upset, the way that the once unknown, often mispronounced Chaminade has been for 35 years.
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It's not Travolta's first awards show flub — at the 2014 Oscars, he infamously mispronounced Idina Menzel's name as "Adele Dazeem" while presenting her with the Oscar for Best Original Song.
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Even his name is frequently mispronounced because of the term — gerrymander is typically pronounced with a "J" sound, like "jerry," but Gerry's name should be pronounced with a hard "G."
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That experience showed me that I needed a group of affirming folks around me so that I could be seen for who I am, but also handle being misgendered and mispronounced.
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A Rochester mom is "shocked" and "disgusted" after she says her daughter Nicarri's name has been mispronounced as a racial slur multiple times in automated calls from the city's school district.
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The three words might get mispronounced, leading to some fun problems, but in general it might be a good to way to get around the world in a post-modern way.
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Additionally, Naidu said, she was not called first to walk across the stage, as is the custom for valedictorians at the school, and the presenter even mispronounced her name, she told WOFL.
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Two presenters mispronounced the names of members of the show's creative team on the air, and the derision from many of the participants, among them Carol Burnett and Zero Mostel, was notable.
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An advocate for Alaska Natives said that when she finally heard a planned radio spot in November, she immediately raised concerns, among them that some names of Alaskan groups had been mispronounced.
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Read more:Here are the most mispronounced words of 201820 things turning 20 years old in 2020 that will make you feel ancient18 moments that went viral and dominated the internet this year
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Travolta, who had already poked fun at his "Adele Dazeem" incident a few years ago (where he mispronounced/misread Idina Menzel's name), seemed to think that drag queen Jade Jolie was Taylor Swift.
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Everything about Madison is a broad caricature of a ditzy blonde: she dresses primarily in pink, she runs her mispronounced words together with a semi-lockjawed form of vocal fry, and she's easily delighted.
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Officials tried to rename a street in Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan province, ostensibly because the Chinese character used to represent its foreign name was often mispronounced by people unfamiliar with the place, China National Radio said.
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And Mr. de Blasio failed to read out the names of the victims during the program — doing so only afterward, in an awkwardly delivered tacked-on coda to his prepared speech, in which he mispronounced several names.
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Tichaona Brown, a payroll manager for Fox News, and Tabrese Wright, a payroll coordinator, allege that Slater said that black staff members mispronounced certain words and suggested that black people wanted to bring physical harm to white people.
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"You are proof that Indians can accomplish at all, anything they want," he said in his 27-minute remarks in which he mispronounced several Indian names and cities but name-checked well-known cricket players and Bollywood stars.
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Correction (October 18th): This article was amended on October 18th to make clear that two legislators displayed a banner saying "Hong Kong is not China" and were the same as the ones who mispronounced China in a derogatory way.
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Cook mispronounced the app's name, repeatedly calling it "Poke-man Go" on the call - a hint that even the biggest tech stars can find it tough to keep up with the sector's trends - but analysts knew what he meant.
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Then, after CNN host Nia-Malika Henderson mispronounced the name of singer/songwriter and black trans woman Shea Diamond, who was asking a question of former US housing secretary Julián Castro, Diamond said that her first name is pronounced Shee-uh.
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"As an Asian-American, especially one with a Vietnamese name, I'd experienced small bits of discrimination, like having my name mispronounced or made fun of," remembers Hao Tran, editor of the popular Saigon-based lifestyle site Vietcetera, which covers business, society, and culture in Vietnam.
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In 2000, 22015,22016 Haitians were killed along the Haitian–Dominican border in what was known as the Parsley massacre, when Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo ordered the deaths of anyone who mispronounced the Spanish word for "parsley" so that soldiers could tell whether they were Dominican or Haitian.
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Henry and Richard promptly organized a tax-specialist firm to replace United Business and named it H & R Block (using their first initials but turning the "h" in their surname into a "k," for fear that the firm might otherwise be mispronounced as "H & R Blotch").
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But to you, thinking about them is like being shot in the head with a psychic bullet: You, with your eyes closed against the light, reliving that time you mispronounced your own name to a girl you liked, or called the teacher "mom", or had your shorts yanked down on a boat trip.
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President Obama's top spokesman on Wednesday took a crack at Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE after the Republican presidential candidate mispronounced Tanzania.
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That was my first hour special, and I'm actually very proud of it and the way it went, they kept in some of the stuff where I went off on the audience in San Francisco because I mispronounced pho, and they corrected me, like I wouldn't have a backup plan, like it's not part of a joke.
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Keep in mind, this is a country where coffee is consumed at the counter of a local café as a morning ritual, a country in which coffee is so ingrained in the culture that the price of coffee was frozen for five years, and a country that is the very birthplace of the espresso drinks that are sold and mispronounced the world over.
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To tie in with the 150th anniversary of the naming of Europe's longest place name — a village in Wales called Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch — custom map platform Mapiful teamed up with the British Institute of Verbatim Reporters to put together a list of the most commonly mispronounced places in the UK. Try and say these 11 places without peeking at the correct pronunciation below.
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In a role that is off-putting even by his standards, Robert De Niro gives a fearless performance as Rupert Pupkin ("It's often mispronounced and misspelled"), a bottom-feeding would-be comedian who craves the approval and assistance of a late-night talk-show host (Jerry Lewis, in a turn that seems to distill a lifetime's exasperation with his fans).
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Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE mispronounced "Nevada" at a rally in Reno Wednesday night as he explained to the crowd how the state's name should be said.
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Read more:30 incredible photos of the US women's soccer team that prove they're the best team in the worldThe head of U.S. Soccer mispronounced Megan Rapinoe's name at the World Cup trophy parade, and she danced it off26 celebrities who are calling for the USWNT to earn equal payAdorable photo shows Megan Rapinoe cheering for the iconic 1999 Women's World Cup Team as a child
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Carlos CurbeloCarlos Luis CurbeloOvernight Energy: Warren edges past Sanders in poll of climate-focused voters | Carbon tax shows new signs of life | Greens fuming at Trump plans for development at Bears Ears monument Carbon tax shows new signs of life in Congress Democratic lawmaker pushes back on Castro's call to repeal law making illegal border crossings a crime MORE (Fla.), whose name he mispronounced, and Mike CoffmanMichael (Mike) Howard CoffmanBottom Line Koch political arm endorses Colorado Sen.
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