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Fauci, Kamala among famous names on mispronounced words list

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Posted at 5:30 PM, Dec 09, 2020
and last updated 2020-12-09 20:30:30-05

The names of America's preeminent infectious disease expert and its incoming vice president have topped this year's list of most mispronounced words.

Anthony Fauci and Kamala Harris are among a number of famous names that made the list released Wednesday.

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The U.S. Captioning Company, which captions and subtitles real-time events on TV and in courtrooms, has been compiling the list with Babbel, a language-learning app company, since 2016.

Todd Ehresmann, a senior linguist at Babbel, said the list, unsurprisingly, reflects a year dominated by presidential politics and the coronavirus pandemic.