Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
While taking roll, Garvey begins stating the names of students in the class and pronounces their names incorrectly. As each student corrects him, Garvey becomes progressively angrier. Upon being uploaded to YouTube, "Substitute Teacher" became a viral video; as of April 2024, the video has 218 million views. The sketch spurred a sequel ...
For example, graduate Sarah Virginia Brennan's name was pronounced "Sayer Oo-voon Geen-goo Bree-none," according to a video from the ceremony. Maeve Elizabeth was pronounced "May-vee Lee Zu-beth."
Science & Tech. Shopping. Sports
An incorrect pronunciation of Launceston (the name of a city in Tasmania), which follows the word's spelling literally. Spelling pronunciation: Pronouncing a word according to its infelicitous or ambiguous spelling. Aphesis: The loss of the sound at the start of a word. [citation needed] Aspiration: An "h" sound at the beginning of a word. For ...
Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages. Sometimes a well-known namesake with the same spelling has a markedly different pronunciation. These are known as heterophonic names or heterophones (unlike heterographs , which are written differently but pronounced the same).
Ed Kelce set the record straight about how to pronounce Jason and Travis's last name.
And to clarify, I'm referring to names such as Favre, Schiavo, etc. These names' pronunciation may be counterintuitive but this isn't of much relevance to English language or history as such. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.69.64.60 03:41, 28 April 2012 (UTC) Support-I'm going to start weeding--Kintetsubuffalo 17
And apparently, the subject also came up during an episode of Travis and Jason Kelce's show New Heights, when Jason asked their dad Ed Kelce why he just...let everyone pronounce their name wrong ...