'It is like the punctuation mark.'
Vice president Kamala Harris speaks from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington CAM-el-uh. KUH-mahl-uh. Karmel-UH. None of this is correct. Kamala Harris is no stranger to having her name mispronounced. The US vide president is running for the Democratic nomination after Joe Biden announced on Sunday he was stepping aside. She has a long to-do list ahead of the presidential election in November – one of them being to get people to pronounce her name correctly.
It’s not KARMEL-UH,’ they explained. It is ‘COM-mah-la,’ with emphasis on the first syllable. When pronounced correctly, the vice president’s name sounds like comma-la. The video started doing the rounds on social media again after almost half of the speakers who used her first name at last week’s Republican National Convention got it wrong. Whether on purpose or not, mispronouncing Harris’ name is often seen as a sign of disrespect.
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