[ti:Difficult to Say Names in the News in 2022] [by:www.51voa.com] [00:00.00]更多听力请访问51VOA.COM [00:00.04]Do you know about the Ohtani rule? [00:03.20]Have you seen a movie with actor Domhnall Gleeson? [00:07.36]If you are a fan of Japanese baseball player Shohei Ohtani [00:12.44]or Irish actor Domhnall Gleeson, [00:15.44]you likely know how to say their names. [00:19.68]Both men were in the news in 2022. [00:23.64]Ohtani got attention in the spring [00:26.48]because America's professional baseball league [00:30.16]introduced a rule change that many call the "Ohtani rule." [00:35.36]They call it that because of his special skills. [00:39.44]And in October, Domhnall Gleeson jokingly called out [00:44.36]television show host Stephen Colbert [00:47.56]for saying his first name wrong. [00:50.76](The right way to say it is DOH-null.) [00:54.76]In fact, their names are among the most [00:58.60]mispronounced names of 2022. [01:03.00]That information comes from The Captioning Group. [01:06.96]The company puts real-time words [01:10.64]under live news stories in the U.S. and Canada. [01:15.72]The group has released a "most mispronounced" list [01:20.60]every year since 2016. [01:25.20]This year's list includes names [01:28.04]like the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia [01:32.16]and Negroni sbagliato, an Italian alcoholic drink. [01:38.96]Zaporizhzhia is the city that is home [01:42.04]to the world's largest nuclear power plant. [01:45.60]Serious fighting between Russia and Ukraine [01:50.00]took place in the area earlier this year. [01:53.32]Russian soldiers took control of the power center. [01:57.32]It was shut down in the autumn to avoid a major accident. [02:04.64]People often worry about mispronouncing a foreign name. [02:08.72]But one expert, Esteban Touma, [02:13.04]says it is a good thing that we live in a world [02:17.12]where we hear and see new names and sounds. [02:21.88]Touma is a producer and teacher [02:24.88]for the language learning company Babbel. [02:28.12]He said seeing all the difficult names in the news [02:32.80]"really shows the ways we interact with other languages [02:38.12]and really gives a good grasp of what's going on in the world [02:43.36]and how we connect with people abroad." [02:47.48]Even people who have help sometimes make mistakes, [02:51.16]including U.S. President Joe Biden. [02:55.68]He had trouble saying the name [02:57.52]of Great Britain's new Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak. [03:02.08]Biden said "Rasheed Sanook." [03:06.80]Another famous person, the singer Adele, [03:10.72]recently said her fans have been saying her name [03:14.04]incorrectly for many years. [03:17.68]She said her name should sound like "uh-Dale." [03:21.52]Of course, many fans said [03:24.80]that is just how people with a British accent pronounce it. [03:30.60]Other mispronounced names in the news [03:33.28]include athletes Tua Tagovailoa, [03:37.00]the American football player, [03:39.48]and tennis star Novak Djokovic. [03:42.76]Tagovailoa was talked about [03:45.04]because of a serious head injury he suffered during a game. [03:49.36]Djokovic was in the news early in 2022 [03:54.20]because he arrived in Australia to play in a competition [03:58.28]but was not permitted to play [04:00.88]because he was not vaccinated against COVID-19. [04:05.68]In the world of science, many people talked [04:08.96]about a large crater in the Gulf of Mexico. [04:13.32]It is called Chicxulub. [04:15.80]Some say the crater was caused by an asteroid [04:20.20]that led to the disappearance of dinosaurs. [04:24.96]And many people learned the correct way [04:28.04]to say the capital city of Scotland [04:30.88]during televised memorial services [04:34.92]for Britain's Queen Elizabeth II. [04:38.00]Many people say "ed-in-bor-o." [04:41.48]But locals say "ed-in-BRUH." [04:45.32]I'm Dan Friedell. 更多听力请访问51VOA.COM