kəˈflɛz.ɡi

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It's been a long time. A.G. was right. I would blog again. It's a form of narcissistic therapy though (can therapy be anything other than narcissistic?) so I don't look at it as necessarily a good thing. In my case anyway.

The skinny: the above Colbert Report clip shows journalists on various outlets both gleefully proclaiming that the winner of the NYC Marathon (Men) was an American and exasperatedly flubbing his name. At first glance the spelling may look a bit odd but I'm pretty sure they get their reading material in advance & have at least 30 seconds to look at it before lights, camera, action. I remember there was this thing we had when we were kids that would help us pronounce words that were new to us. Rules of something... What was it again...?

Oh, that's right. PHONICS!

You may not be pronouncing it natively but it sounds better than "kifle...kefleg...klifeg...seriously?!" or "Wow. Tough name for an American."

Where do journalists get their degrees these days? Off the back of Froot Loops boxes?! (No disrespect to the J School peoples.)

Unless your name is Running Dog Coyote Cloud (English translation, of course) your name is NOT "American." They all have their origins somewhere outside of this slab of land we now inhabit in the Western Hemisphere.

Also, if Hooked on Phonics didn't stick, you could always Google/Wiki the name. IPA right there. Go on. Put those Investigative Journalism course credits to work!