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  • How do you pronounce the name of the South Bend mayor who’s a presidential hopeful?

  • Well, let’s listen to how he says it.

  • Buttigieg.

  • So it’s notPete Buttigieg”, “Pete Buttigieg”, “Pete Buttigieg”.

  • It all boils down to the vowels.

  • Buttigieg.

  • The vowel in the first syllable is not likeboo”, but likebook”.

  • Uh, book.

  • Butti-, Butti-

  • And the last syllable isn’t the UH syllable like injudge’.

  • But it’s the unstressed IH vowel, like insteerage’: -ieg, ieg.

  • So not UH, but uh, uh.

  • Buttigieg.

  • Now, let’s talk consonants.

  • The T is a Flap T, which is normal for a T between vowels in American English.

  • It sounds like a D. Buttigieg.

  • And the G.

  • Is it a hard G, likego’, or a soft G likejudge’?

  • GG?

  • JJ?

  • Pete Buttigieg.

  • Hard G, not right.

  • It’s a soft G. Buttigieg.

  • Buttigieg.

  • So that’s how he says his own last name.

  • But it sounds like he’s pretty understanding about people just calling him Pete.

  • Call me Mayor Pete.”

  • That’s, that’s, that’s how he’s known.”

  • That’s it, and thanks so much for using Rachel’s English.

How do you pronounce the name of the South Bend mayor who’s a presidential hopeful?

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