“What’s in a name?”
William Shakespeare once wrote.
“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”
Still, getting someone’s name right is a way to show respect, as Noor Wazwaz explained onNPR.
“Pronouncing someone’s name correctly isn’t just a common courtesy,” she said.
“It’s far more than just the syllables that come out of someone’s mouth.
It’s an important effort to create an inclusive society, a way to emphasize safety and belonging.”
Whose name could be easier to get right than a celebrity?
In a video forVoguea few months later, she said the same thing: “Lindsay LO-wen.”
That’s news to us!
It turns out Lohan knows and doesn’t mind that everyone says it differently.
“It doesn’t matter to me, really,” she said.
“… My dad, he was like, ‘You know it’s LO-HAN, Lindsay.'”
“We had the same shoes, so it was a nice little connection,” Teigen said.
In the years that followed, Teigen became incredibly famous.
“It’s my fault,” she said. "
I’m tired of correcting people."
Furthermore, she joked, “you’ve got the option to call me anything.
I’ll respond to it.”
It just makes sense.
“Oh, I’m gonna get a grande!”
she giggled, to laughter from the crowd. "
… Gets ‘em every time!"
“My grandpa said GRAND-ee,” she confessed.
Fans took toTwitterto express their surprise, including “Canada’s Drag Race” contestant Eve 6000.
“THAT’S how you pronounce Tove Lo!?!?”
Lo had been trying to tell people.
In other words, it’s all good.
She even brought back Raven for “Raven’s Home,” a sequel series on The Disney Channel.
In other words, Symone has been very famous for a very long time.
It’s not Raven sim-OWN, it’s Raven sim-own-AY.
There’s an accent on the “e,” after all.
She played Briony Tallis, a young girl who falsely accuses a man of abuse.
After all, she’s been nominated for four Oscars.
Ronan is Irish, and her first name isn’t a particularly common one outside of her native homeland.
Well, that’s clearly not right.
Trouble was … the song was intentionally confusing.
If you might’t commit all of that to memory, she offered an easier rhyme to help fans remember.
It’s Saoirse like inertia, she pointed out.
We’ve all kept up whether we wanted to or not.
“It’s Khlo-AY,” Cohen demonstrated to a flabbergasted Fallon.
“Sorry, but … call her!”
Do we follow the lead of the woman herself, or Kris Jenner by way of Andy Cohen?
His sensitive, charismatic performance as the hunky Connell won fans around the world.
Everybody does it."
He explained, “I pronounce it MESS-cull.”
Thankfully, Mescal is good-natured about the mix-up.
Thankfully, all the way back in 2013, they shared a video on theirYouTubechannel about that very subject.
“It’s HIGH-um,” Alana said, while Este added, “Two syllables.”
Fans should be able to get it right, but sometimes the sisters themselves get it wrong.
“That was one syllable!”
Danielle interjects, teasing her sister.
“You’re wrong!”
“I knew this was the question,” she laughed.
“It is Rih-ANNE-ah.”
Hammer cut her off, as though insisting we should all get it right.
“He’s right,” Rihanna agreed.
“Whatever he said.”
Got that, everyone?
If we get her name right, maybe she’ll give us more music someday.
The incident prompted a swift backlash against out-of-touch celebrities, and Gadot later admitted toInStylethat it was a mistake.
“It wasn’t the right timing, and it wasn’t the right thing,” she said.
“It was in poor taste.”
In other words, at this point, Gadot is a certified mover and shaker in Hollywood.
Her name, though, still confuses people.
“The ga-DUTT can be better,” she instructed.
“More ‘T’ at the end.”
She’s sincedated Bella Thorne, “married” Jake Paul, and more.
In other words, Tana Mongeau knows how to keep her name in the headlines.
But … how is that name pronounced, exactly?
In 2022, she appeared on fellow YouTuber Alex Warren’s podcastLocked In.
“It’s MO-jo,” Mongeau said.
Warren shot back, “Why?
It’s spelled MON-jue.”
Mongeau launched into a diatribe about her struggle with her own name.
“Take up with the French, you know?
Like, I didn’t create it, you know?”
“I’m just here, living with it.”
Appearing onTodaythe following year, Silverstone expressed pride in the fact that the film was still relevant.
Case in point: she’s got more than four million followers onTikTok!
“My name is ah-lee-see-yah,” she enunciated clearly.
“Ah-lee, see-yah.”
