Billie Eilish's second name among the most mispronounced words of 2021

[Teletubby 64,779]

The list, by the U.S. Captioning Company, identifies the words that proved most challenging for newsreaders and people on television to pronounce this year.
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The most commonly misspoken words:

— Cheugy (CHOO-gee)

— Chipotle (chih-POHT-lay)

— Dalgona (tal-goh-NAH)

— Dogecoin (DOHJ-coin)

— Eilish (EYE-lish)

— Ethereum (ih-THEE-ree-um)

— Ever Given (EV-er GIV-en)

— Glasgow (GLAHZ-go)

— Kelce (KELs)

— Omicron (AH-muh-kraan / OH-mee-kraan)

— Shein (SHEE-in)

— Stefanos Tsitsipas 

— Yassify (YEAH-sih-fai)

[Meat 10,355]

5 minutes ago, Teletubby said:

— Yassify (YEAH-sih-fai)

What’s so hard about pronouncing this? 

[dojo 13,224]

— Shein (SHEE-in)

 

[Kimmo 55,842]

-EYE

[Kimmo 55,842]

Also, it’s what she deserves…

[TSUNAMI 19,681]

3 minutes ago, Meat said:

What’s so hard about pronouncing this? 

I pronounced it as Joseph

[AYURO 1,314]

7 minutes ago, Meat said:

What’s so hard about pronouncing this? 

You pronounce YAAS as YEAAHS? 

[NicoB 22,959]

10 minutes ago, TSUNAMI said:

I pronounced it as Joseph

[Frank Potion 31,585]

Sweetie… that’s now how you say Yaas 

[TSUNAMI 19,681]

5 minutes ago, NicoB said:

I know

[moonsago 4,365]

Really? I would of never though Eyelash was such a difficult name to pronounce. It just rings so well, Billie Eyelash... I think ya’ll are just uneducated and haven’t gone to proper school in 2 years 

Edited December 7, 2021 by moonsago

[alsemanche 46,019]

35 minutes ago, Teletubby said:

Shein (SHEE-in)

i always thought i pronounced this wrong but apparently not?? my mind

37 minutes ago, Teletubby said:

Yassify (YEAH-sih-fai)

not them misspronouncing it... no one pronounces YAS as yeah-s tf 

[FfFfFfFF 50,888]

Why would anybody have a hard time pronnouncing Billie Eyelid when is actually a straighforward and normal name? We live in a weird world.

[NicoB 22,959]

2 minutes ago, FfFfFfFF said:

Why would anybody have a hard time pronnouncing Billie Eyelid when is actually a straighforward and normal name? We live in a weird world.

Do you mean thee eyelash bug?

 

[LDGA 1,242]

I always pronounced it "Elis" XD