Singer Billie Eilish shines again in 2021. But this time, unexpectedly. His name is among the most mispronounced words of the year in the American media.
According to a list published on Tuesday compiled by US Captioning Company, a company responsible for captioning events broadcast on television in real time, hosts and journalists often slaughter the surname of the artist behind the successes. Bad guy and Happier Than Ever.
According to Babbel, the internet language learning platform that commissioned the study, the singer-songwriter’s last name is pronounced “EYE-lish.”
Other words appearing in the rankings include variant Omicron, Greek tennis player Stefanos Tsitsipas, the city of Glasgow, where the most recent United Nations Climate Conference was held, and Dalgona, the famous cookies of Squid Game (The squid game).