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Is it “Camel-uh” or “Cam-ahl-uh”?

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[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 29 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Thank you for this. I’ve heard her name mispronounced so often that I genuinely thought kah-MALL-uh was correct. Whoops! Comma-la it is!

[–] memfree@lemmy.ml 20 points 3 months ago

Happy to help!

Oh, I shoulda linked to a first-hand source where she herself wrote "comma-la" as the pronunciation (no particular accent on syllables). It is in her book, and also towards the bottom of this piece has that excerpts from her book: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/book-excerpt-kamala-harris-truths-hold/story?id=60234101

[–] SaltySalamander@fedia.io 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

kah-MALL-uh

The right mispronounces it that way intentionally.

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 2 points 3 months ago

As I’ve heard. Now we know better than to perpetuate it!