What Are the Most Mispronounced Words of 2024?

Wednesday, January 01, 2025

Every year since 2016, Babbel has partnered with TV captioning groups to determine the words that newscasters, politicians and other people in the media had the most trouble with.

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#1 | Posted by NerfHerder at 2024-12-31 08:52 PM | Reply

FELON

#2 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-12-31 08:56 PM | Reply

Reading the cited article, the most mispronounced seem to be names.

Topped by the mispronunciation of VP Harris' name.

#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-12-31 09:07 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

My question becomes, at this point, was VP Harris' name intentionally mispronounced by some as a deliberate attempt to tag her as an evil ~immigrant?~

#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-12-31 09:38 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Trio - Da Da Da (1981)
www.youtube.com

Lyrics excerpt ...

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...
What you do and what you don't
What you will and what you won't
Whatyoucan and whatyou can't
This is what you gotto know:
Loved you though it didn't show

Ich lieb' dich nicht, du liebst mich nicht
Ich lieb' dich nicht, du liebst mich nicht
Ich lieb' dich nicht, du liebst mich nicht
Ich lieb' dich nicht, du liebst mich nicht, da da da

Da da da
Da da da
Da da da

Da da da I don't love you you don't love me
Da da da I don't love you you don't love me
Da da da I don't love you you don't love me
Da da da I don't love you you don't love me, da da da

Da da da
Da da da
Da da da
...

#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-12-31 09:42 PM | Reply

re: #4 Lamplighter

Remember Barack HUSSEIN Obama? The GOP loved saying that one, for some reason

#6 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-01-01 12:47 AM | Reply

They're ------- idiots.

#7 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-01-01 05:50 PM | Reply

BTW, TRIO is a German band.
Those lyrics should be the original German.

You idiot.

#8 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-01-01 05:51 PM | Reply

"Remember Barack HUSSEIN Obama? The GOP loved saying that one, for some reason"

It was obviously a reference to Saddam Hussein, promoting xenophobia. The Democrats more or less when they referred to Georg W. Bush as "Dubya".

#9 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-01-01 08:19 PM | Reply

"Remember Barack HUSSEIN Obama? The GOP loved saying that one, for some reason"

It was obviously a reference to Saddam Hussein, promoting xenophobia. The Democrats more or less did the same thing when they referred to George W. Bush as "Dubya".

#10 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-01-01 08:20 PM | Reply

Even though his birth certificate was forged, at least they were using name his as written on it.

#11 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-01-02 12:03 AM | Reply

Even though his birth certificate was obviously forged, at least they were using his name as written on it.

#12 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-01-02 12:05 AM | Reply

Even though his birth certificate was obviously forged, at least they were using his name as written on it.

#12 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-01-02 12:05 AM

And you have evidence of this, which you can share with the rest of us, eh...

OCU

#13 | Posted by OCUser at 2025-01-02 01:24 AM | Reply

"Leon" has got to be in the top five...

#14 | Posted by catdog at 2025-01-02 09:28 AM | Reply

"My question becomes, at this point, was VP Harris' name intentionally mispronounced by some as a deliberate attempt to tag her as an evil ~immigrant?~"

It took me a while to get her name right because of Kamala the Ugandan Headhunter.

It took me a minute to get Barack right because I have a friend with that name who pronounces it differently. Now he goes by the Presidential pronunciation. At first he used to assert his own pronunciation but it became pointless after a while.

#15 | Posted by Hagbard_Celine at 2025-01-02 09:48 AM | Reply

Kamala was hard to pronounce correctly because Kamala changed how she pronounced it over the years also her new "accepted" pronunciation is not the common one.

#16 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-01-02 11:17 AM | Reply

her new "accepted" pronunciation is not the common one.

#16 | POSTED BY VISITOR_

Was that right after she "just happened to turn black"?

Turning black can be a traumatic experience.

People say that when someone "just happens to turn black" their voices and accents also just happens to change.

That's what the people say.

#17 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-01-02 12:20 PM | Reply

Jessica "Jess-See-Cuh"
Denise "Dee-nice."
Blake "Bill-Lock-Ay"
Jaqueline "Jay-Quel-in"
Aaron. "A-A-Ron."

#18 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-01-02 12:29 PM | Reply

#17 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-01-02 12:20 PM

Here's the video to prove it.
www.youtube.com