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A company called U.S. Captioning does the subtitles for live events on TV. They also do an annual list of the most MISPRONOUNCED words of the year.
They polled a bunch of newscasters and announcers to find out which words they had trouble with. Here are a few words you may have mispronounced in 2021...
1. "Cheugy" (CHOO-gee) A Gen Z term for things that are unfashionable or outdated.
2. "Chipotle" (chih-POHT-lay) Your dad will never stop calling it chih-POLT-ee.
3. "Dogecoin" (DOHJ-coin) A lot of people thought it was "doja," like Doja Cat. Or you might have said "DOGGY coin" at first. "Ethereum" also made the list.
4. "Eilish," as in Billie Eilish. People said "ELL-ish" a lot, or even "eye-LASH."
5. "Ever Given," the name of the ship that blocked the Suez Canal in March. People couldn't stop calling it the "Evergreen."
6. "Glasgow" (GLAHZ-go) President Biden and President Obama both said glas-GOW this year. You're not supposed to pronounce the "W" at the end.
7. "Omicron." We've only been saying it for two weeks, so it's still tripping people up. Maybe because no one can agree on the "right" way to say it. A poll last week found "OH-muh-cron" is the most popular, followed by "OH-me-cron" and "OH-my-cron."