Name: How to Pronounce Buttigieg
Uploaded: 2020-03-09T23:10:45.000Z
Duration: 1 min 42 s
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How do you pronounce the name of the South Bend mayor who’s a presidential hopeful?

So it’s not “Pete Buttigieg”, “Pete Buttigieg”, “Pete Buttigieg”.

The vowel in the first syllable is not like “boo”, but like “book”.

And the last syllable isn’t the UH syllable like in ‘judge’.

But it’s the unstressed IH vowel, like in ‘steerage’: -ieg, ieg.

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

Is it a hard G, like ‘go’, or a soft G like ‘judge’?

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

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

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

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