10 boy names YOU pronounce INCORRECTLY 2018 Baby Name Ideas
hello everyone and welcome back to
english with lucy today i want to talk
to you about commonly mispronounced baby
names that are usually given to boys so
this is a pronunciation video designed
to help you with your english speaking
and pronunciation if you’d like to
further improve that i really encourage
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and I’ve got some recommendations for
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I’ve got an American English
pronunciation one as well so don’t miss
out right let’s get started with the
video so the first name that I’d like to
talk about is actually a Hispanic name
and it is Joaquin Joaquin like The
Walking Dead
so in Spanish it should be Joaquin the
speakers of English generally tend to
pronounce it as Joaquin Joaquin so
Joaquin Phoenix for example doesn’t feel
right it doesn’t roll off the tongue
number two now some of you were going to
laugh at this one because you will know
how to pronounce it but I honestly for
the majority of my childhood thought
that this was pronounced as seen seen so
you know the actor Sean Bean I thought
he was seen being but yes it should be
pronounced Sean the next one now this
just depends on the parents it could be
Stefan and it could be Steven it’s up to
them so just ask with this one now the
next one is a little bit confusing
because it could be anything so you are
likely to mispronounce it and that’s why
it’s best just to ask the person how
they pronounce their name
it could be Elias it could be Elias and
it could be Elias are those just all the
variations there I guess you could say
Elias as well just ask the next one
anything a beginning with an X is
difficult
this one is normally pronounced Xander
Xander next one we have is actually
pronounced with an X and that’s
savvier xavier but you could meet
someone called xavier as well what about
this one is it noel like christmas it
could be i have met somebody called noel
before but she was female and normally
the male version of this name is null no
now this one is just the Irish version
of Owen Owen and I remember it does
anyone remember Owen quick he was an
x-factor participant in like 2000 and
something and I thought he was so
handsome
yeah I remember reading his name and
thinking you’re gone but no Owen
apparently now the next one is it Louie
or is it Louis you’re going to have to
ask the person because it all depends on
what their parents decided to call them
sorry guys that one’s a bit of a cop-out
the last one we have is Jaden we know it
now because of Jaden Smith but a few
years back people were pretty confused
and we were hearing jardín Jaden but no
apparently it should be Jaden right guys
that’s it for the pronunciation lesson
today I hope you enjoyed it and I hope
you learnt something again if you have a
name that is commonly misspelled or
mispronounced put it in the comments and
let me sympathize with you mine is very
easy to pronounce although I do get a
lot of my students calling me lucky or
misspelling it with an S which confuses
me so much because the channel name is
English with Lucy it is right there I
say it for you and I write it for you so
really it’s just careless but that being
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