I f you felt like half the news this year involved someone correcting a pronunciation, you were not alone. Between global elections, bizarre museum scandals and celebrity revelations, many Americans found themselves stumbling over names they had never encountered before.

And to make things official, the language-learning platform Babbel and closed-captioning experts The Captioning Group have now revealed the words public figures in the US struggled with the most.

Who struggled with Zohran Mamdani’s name?

It turns out that Zohran Mamdani’s rapid rise in US politics came with a surprising side plot: people constantly mispronouncing his name. Babbel listed the democratic socialist at the top of this year’s pronunciation challenges, noting that his name, properly pronounced zoh-RAHN mam-

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