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- 0:00Speaker 1: How appropriate, Christine that you found this story this week
- 0:02Speaker 1: after what we went through a couple of days ago
- 0:04Speaker 1: with me pronouncing pen and pen. So one of six
- 0:08Speaker 1: point seven light of m could be Christine, producer Kristen.
- 0:10Speaker 2: Could be just said pin and pen, by the way, right,
- 0:13Speaker 2: the same word.
- 0:14Speaker 1: Before we get into some of the most mispronounced words
- 0:17Speaker 1: of the year. Yes, like two days ago we had
- 0:21Speaker 1: a big debate about how you say pen. Well, you
- 0:24Speaker 1: all say it right, and I say, so, the thing
- 0:26Speaker 1: you're write with is a pen. It's a pen. And
- 0:29Speaker 1: the thing that you put on your shirt is a
- 0:31Speaker 1: is a pen.
- 0:32Speaker 2: It is not see I say it the same way
- 0:35Speaker 2: putting a ballpoint pin in your pocket and this is
- 0:38Speaker 2: talking about a pin.
- 0:39Speaker 1: So it's a pen. So there is a slight difference.
- 0:43Speaker 2: Yeah, there's different words and pronunciations. There's a difference.
- 0:46Speaker 1: So what I'm trying to say is we already know
- 0:48Speaker 1: what I can't pronounce. You we went through that, So
- 0:52Speaker 1: what are like everyday people they can't say this.
- 0:55Speaker 2: The top three words this year that we have mispronounced.
- 0:59Speaker 2: Number one is a name and it's Zorron. Mom, Donnie.
- 1:04Speaker 1: You know, I have to admit when he was like
- 1:07Speaker 1: you know, running early on and like if this guy wins,
- 1:10Speaker 1: I don't have to get to know this name.
- 1:11Speaker 2: We have to say this yes, and now we have to.
- 1:13Speaker 2: I've been saying it in the news, remember from the
- 1:15Speaker 2: get though I was. I told you, I'm like, I
- 1:17Speaker 2: have to. I have to learn how to say this
- 1:19Speaker 2: name properly. Zorron, Mom, Donnie, I think I'm saying it right, Okay.
- 1:23Speaker 2: The thing with these things of the most mispronounced words
- 1:26Speaker 2: is I feel like we're setting ourselves up here because.
- 1:28Speaker 1: If we don't get him right, that's what we're about.
- 1:31Speaker 2: Adding to the list. Coming in second is Thailand. Hall's
- 1:35Speaker 2: a ceda menafin.
- 1:37Speaker 1: Oh that was when the president could Yes, he had
- 1:40Speaker 1: a hard time, a hard time, and that is a
- 1:42Speaker 1: hard word.
- 1:43Speaker 2: It is.
- 1:48Speaker 1: Yeah, you almost have to think of other words, like
- 1:50Speaker 1: I seed medicine.
- 1:53Speaker 2: Oh you did seed that.
- 1:57Speaker 1: I have different words together. I see the minifin, I
- 2:02Speaker 1: see the man of fin, I see the man with fins.
- 2:05Speaker 2: The fishing you see him? Is that what you see
- 2:09Speaker 2: men fishing?
- 2:10Speaker 1: I see men fishing.
- 2:11Speaker 2: Okay, whatever it takes Covey to get you there. And third,
- 2:15Speaker 2: and I think I don't do this one justice the
- 2:18Speaker 2: louver because you know, the jewels being stolen.
- 2:21Speaker 1: It's easy, though it's.
- 2:23Speaker 2: Not because I'm not quite saying it right. It's actually
- 2:25Speaker 2: like louver.
- 2:28Speaker 1: Oh, like you have an r almost as the louver,
- 2:30Speaker 1: but no one ever says the river apart.
- 2:32Speaker 2: They which yeah, one of somebody from the museum was saying,
- 2:37Speaker 2: if you would just try and give it a little,
- 2:39Speaker 2: the French would respect it please. Interesting, like so I
- 2:42Speaker 2: always just say louve because it's easier and because I
- 2:45Speaker 2: know I'm probably overdoing the world if I do it.
- 2:48Speaker 2: But louverra louverra louver emphasis on the louver.
- 2:52Speaker 1: All right, So your top three mispronounced words one more time,
- 2:56Speaker 1: just to make you do it again.
- 2:57Speaker 2: Tanks, covy, mom, Donnie our marilec zorronn and I see
- 3:03Speaker 2: a mine, a fin seed, a minifin correct, And what's
- 3:08Speaker 2: the museum in Paris that got robbed?
- 3:10Speaker 1: Louvro louver lover. Now you know,