Name: 10 boy names YOU pronounce INCORRECTLY | 2018 Baby Name Ideas
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Hello everyone, and welcome back to English With Lucy.

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Today, I want to talk to you about commonly-mispronounced baby names that are usually given to boys.

So, this is a pronunciation video designed to help you with your English speaking and pronunciation.

If you'd like to further improve that, I really encourage you to check out Audible.

You can get a 30-day free trial, that's a whole free audiobook,

and I've got some recommendations for books with British English pronunciation.

I've got an American English pronunciation one as well.

The first name that I'd like to talk about is actually a Hispanic name, and it is Joaquin.

So in Spanish it should be Joaquin, but speakers of English generally tend to pronounce it as Walking, Walking,

doesn't feel right, it doesn't roll off the tongue.

Number two, now some of you are going to laugh at this one because you will know how to pronounce it,

but I honestly, for the majority of my childhood thought that this was pronounced as Seen, Seen,

so you know the actor Sean Bean, I thought he was Seen Bean, but yes, it should be pronounced Sean.

The next one, now this just depends on the parents, it could be Steffen, and it could be Steven.

It's up to them, so just ask with this one.

Now the next one is a little bit confusing because it could be anything.

So you are likely to mispronounce it, and that's why it's best just to ask the person how they pronounce their name.

It could be Elias, it could be Ellias, and it could be Elius.

I guess you could say Eelias as well, just ask.

The next one, anything beginning with an X is difficult, this one is normally pronounced Zander, Zander.

Next one we have is actually pronounced with an X, and that is Exaveeay, Exaveeay.

But you could meet someone called Zaveeay as well.

It could be, I have met somebody called Noel before,

but she was female, and normally the male version of this name is Nole, Nole.

Now this one is just the Irish version of Owen, Owen.

And I remember, does anyone remember Eoghan Quigg?

He was an X Factor participant in 2000 and something and I thought he was so handsome.

Yeah, I remember reading his name and thinking Yohan, but no, Owen apparently.

Now the next one, is it Louie, or is it Louis?

You're going to have to ask the person because it all depends on what their parents decided to call them, sorry guys, that one's a bit of a cop-out.

but a few years back people were pretty confused and we were hearing Jarden, Jadden,

All right guys, that's it for the pronunciation lesson today, I hope you enjoyed it and I hope you learned something.

Again, if you have a name that is commonly misspelt, or mispronounced, put it in the comments and let me sympathise with you.

Mine's very easy to pronounce, although I do get a lot of my students calling me Lucky,

or misspelling it with an S, which confuses me so much because the channel name is English with Lucy,

it's right there, I say it for you, and I write it for you, so really, it's just careless.

But that being said, don't forget to connect with me on all of my social media, I've got my Facebook,

my Instagram, and my Twitter, and I will see you soon for another lesson.

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