{"id":12682,"date":"2023-12-18T08:20:22","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T07:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ceoinfluencers.com\/?p=12682"},"modified":"2023-12-18T08:20:22","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T07:20:22","slug":"how-to-pronounce-mark-zuckerberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ceoinfluencers.com\/how-to-pronounce-mark-zuckerberg\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Pronounce Mark Zuckerberg"},"content":{"rendered":"
Mark Zuckerberg is one of the wealthiest people in the world, and one of the most influential figures in the tech world. But how do you say his name correctly? It turns out, it’s not as straightforward as you may think.<\/p>\n
One common mistake is to add a second syllable to his name. The correct way to say Mark Zuckerberg is “Zook-ur-berg”, with a slight emphasis on the middle syllable. The emphasis should almost sound like a question. The emphasis also depends on the emphasis that the speaker puts on the word, so it’s important to listen and to learn the correct intonation.<\/p>\n
The correct pronunciation of Zuckerberg in 8 steps:<\/p>\n
According to linguists, the fact that people often add an extra syllable to his name could be because of the phonological process of metathesis. Metathesis is a linguistic process where sounds in a given word can be swapped around or rearranged, producing a new word. It is a common phenomenon in English, and is the reason why some words are pronounced differently over time – for example, the word ask<\/i> used to be pronounced “aks”.<\/p>\n