WASHINGTON – Rich Buttigieg’s last name earned him nothing but ridicule for most of his life.
Mike has always pronounced it “BUTTA-gig,” though his grandmother would say"BYOOT-a-jeige" and the candidate's supporters chant “Boot-Edge-Edge” at his rallies. “It depends on who I’m trying to impress,” he said. “I actually like it better than the way I pronounce my name.”as living in the United States. There were 2.4 million Smiths, the most common name, and nearly 1.2 million Garcias, the sixth-most common.
of the honor noted: “His son, Pete, defamiliarized in the US through his 'unpronounceable’ surname, is running for US president.”from “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” of Americans trying to pronounce the name – and guessing what it means.No, it doesn’t refer to a “gang of butts” as one woman suggested. It roughly translates to “lord of the poultry” or “owner of the chickens.” The family crest portrays a rooster on a barrel underneath a six-pointed star.
Pete Buttigieg did get told in high school – where his gym teacher called him “Buttman” – that he would have to change his name if he planned on becoming president. When he joined the Navy Reserve, his name was initially misspelled on his camouflage uniform. They would probably say “buh-tih-JEHJ” because the “ie” is derived from the Arabic double A, explained Buttigieg, a polyglot whose mother, Anne Montgomery, is a retired linguist professor. “It’s arguably a dialect of north African Arabic with a kind of European superstructure,” Pete said of Maltese, a Semitic language.Buttigieg had the opportunity to ditch the name when he married Chasten Glezman in 2018.
Stock ticker names that are easy to pronounce do better than those that aren’t. The names of drugs that are hard to pronounce seem riskier than smoother-sounding names.Trump: 'Nobody can pronounce it'
It doesn’t matter who democrats pick as the nominee, socialism has no place in America, the communist democrat party need to goto China and see how it works there, and see Americans do not want socialism!
dw rich your name will be back to being completely irrelevant soon
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