Memo to Karoline Leavitt: The country's name is NOT eye-ran.

[no_hypocrisy]

It's pronounced with a "short i" vowel sound. Like iridescent. Like if. Like igloo.

[RockRaven]

1. RWers mispronounce things/names purposefully, as a troll job.

It is not because they haven't been told or don't know better. They are just trying to be assholes. And it is deeply ingrained. They do it automatically, it is a "power move" for weak people.

[Mopar151]

2. And she's from NH

Where mispronunciation is a favorite pastime of many.
The "Conservative Intellectuals" that plague us tend to think belligerent and condescending speech is "brilliant".

[Skittles]

4. "conservative intellectual"

da FOOK is that?

[2naSalit]

6. An oxymoron.

[Mopar151]

11. They think so!

The 1st in the nation primary draws them out, like ants at a picnic! They're quite fond of far right craziness like Furries!

[Irish_Dem]

3. They are proud of their ignorance and lack of education.

They love to show it off.

[Chipper Chat]

5. I can remember RWers referring to Iraq as "EYE-RACK"

Used to irritate me.

[hlthe2b]

7. THANK YOU! The igorance on this is stunning and cringe-worthy whenever I hear it.

It just screams willfully ignorant-- and all who say it (as they did "eye-rack" for Iraq in years past) and who seek to speak for this country's government ought to be uniformly ridiculed.

[dem4decades]

8. She makes an effort to offend intelligence, she's very good at it.

[FSogol]

9. I Ran!

[Ilsa]

14. When I heard her yapping yesterday, I also thought

about A Flock of Seagulls.

[MineralMan]

10. That's the official Republican pronunciation, see...

Republicans are special, see?

[Totally Tunsie]

12. I'm betting she also likes EYE-TALIAN food.

[Ilsa]

13. Ear-rawn. Ear-rock. nt

[Ilsa]

15. She's an Eye-dee-ahhht. nt