WASHINGTON, DC, 11:11 PM, MON NOVEMBER 23 | Advertise on Wonkette | tips@wonkette.com | SUBMIT A TIP | RSS

Posts Tagged ‘pronunciation’

WAH WAH WAH

National Review: We Pronounce ‘Sotomayor’ However We WANT

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

Got a big crater in yr face, KrikorianThe National Review The Corner blog’s Mark Krikorian hears how the people on teevee are pronouncing Sotomayor — “Zo-toe-my-OR” — and he goddamn does not care for that at all, so he goddamn will not pronounce it that way, goddamnit, fuck you all, learn to speak English. MORE »


GEORGE W. BUSH

Pronounce Like a President

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

mee-AN-mahr - WonketteBush’s little chat about how we’re sanctioning Myanmar came with a handy guide to pronouncing the difficult words that come up when you’re discussing foreign policy. So naturally Foreign Policy got a copy of the phonetically written speech, so you can play along at home! Here are some of the many, many words our President doesn’t know how to say: MORE »