Prof Perrachione Quoted on WGBH: Can you say Buttigieg?
(2/20/2020, WGBH)
Expert Quote:
“It’s not so much that it’s hard to say, it’s that it’s hard to know how to say it, the way it’s spelled,” said Boston University Professor of Phonetics Tyler Perrachione. “The ‘u’ makes a lot of different sounds, the ‘g’, you usually think of as a ‘guh’ so when we hear it as Buttigieg, it’s not the first thing we think of when we see it written.” – Tyler Perrachione, assistant professor of speech, language & hearing sciences