(In)famous mispronunciations
For lovers of wordplay, there’s something delectable about tossing a hard-to-pronounce word into casual conversationas long as you’re confident you can say it correctly. Of course, if you’re not, it’s easy enough to swap in a synonym. But what happens when no synonym is availablelike with these commonly mispronounced city names or incorrectly pronounced company names? Or worst yet: When it’s someone else’s name. There’s nothing quite so awkward as flubbing the pronunciation of a first or last name, perhaps even more so when it’s a famous one. After all, shouldn’t we already know how to pronounce the names of celebs?
There are plenty of historical figures and high-profile people with commonly mispronounced names, but we don’t always know the correct pronunciation. Sometimes we don’t even know that we don’t know! Fortunately, when it comes to these frequently mispronounced famous names, we’re spelling it out for you below.
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