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  <title>How to pronounce Sotomayor.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  President Obama today nominated Sonia Sotomayor to replace David Souter on the Supreme Court. Sotomayor's possible nomination has already been batted around the media for weeks now, and as often as not her name has been butchered by cable news anchors. So here she is, saying her own family name at today's news conference.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2219047/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>Andy Bowers</author>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 11:59:17 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>How to pronounce Ross Douthat's name.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  The New York Times has tapped 29-year-old conservative Ross Douthat to succeed Bill Kristol as an op-ed columnist. Douthat, the co-author of Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream, blogs and writes for the Atlantic and is an occasional Slate contributor. Douthat has offered some guidance on his blog on how to pronounce his name. In case the phonetic spelling still leaves you confused, Slate asked Douthat to settle the score on tape.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2213548/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:01:06 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>How to pronounce the name Blagojevich.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was arrested by FBI agents Tuesday morning and accused of trying "to sell the U.S. Senate seat" recently vacated by President-elect Barack Obama. The governor himself has joked about the difficulty of pronouncing his last name.Name: Rod BlagojevichTitle: Governor of IllinoisLast Name Pronounced: "Bluh-GOY-uh-vich"Tape: Click the arrow on the player below to hear Rod Blagojevich pronounce his own name while being sworn into office in 2007.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2206377/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 9 Dec 2008 16:05:40 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>How to pronounce Brauchli.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  Washington Post Publisher Katharine Weymouth today formally introduced the newspaper's new editor, Wall Street Journal veteran Marcus Brauchli. Even among fellow journalists there's been some question about how to pronounce Brauchli's surname—many seemed to think it was a homonym for a certain green vegetable. Not so!<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2195043/?from=rss">more ...</a>]<!--AD BEGIN--><br clear="all" /><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/slate.rss/politics;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=6357" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/slate.rss/politics;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=6357" border="0" vspace="5" /></a><!--AD END-->  ]]></description>
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  <author>Andy Bowers</author>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 8 Jul 2008 17:20:02 EST</pubDate>
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  <title>How to pronounce John Boehner.</title>
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  <description><![CDATA[  John Boehner (R-Ohio) was selected by the House Republican caucus today to replace Tom DeLay as majority leader. It's one of the top jobs in Washington, so we might as well start pronouncing Boehner's name correctly from the outset.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2135368/?from=rss">more ...</a>]  ]]></description>
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  <author>Andy Bowers</author>
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  <pubDate>Thu, 2 Feb 2006 15:12:35 EST</pubDate>
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