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Is it “Camel-uh” or “Cam-ahl-uh”?

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[–] [email protected] 131 points 4 months ago (6 children)
[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 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!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 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

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Commala? As in the pokemon Komala?

So it really is Komala Harris vs Trumpshoos

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

"Comma-la" unfortunately doesn't help much for people without US accents lol (though of course people in the US are who the question and answer are most relevant to). On first reading -- without the accent or something close to it -- it implies "kom-uh-luh", whereas with the accent it implies something more like "kah-muh-luh", just based on how people pronounce "comma" differently.

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[–] [email protected] 111 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Obama, Obamala, 'bamala, Kamala

[–] [email protected] 51 points 4 months ago

Whoa Black Betty, 'bamala

[–] [email protected] 47 points 4 months ago

That's one of the cleverest pronunciation guides I've ever seen.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 4 months ago

Thanks Obamala.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh shit here come the conspiracy theories now....

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Guise. Guise. They're both black.... Dons tinfoil hat

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Tomorrow on Alex Jones' podcast: Kamala Harris is actually Barrack Obama in drag. It's all part of his nefarious plan to subverting term limits and force Healthcare on everyone.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I think it's pronounced "Madam President"

[–] 404 11 points 4 months ago

So say we all.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Pres·i·dent /ˈprezəˌdent/

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 39 points 4 months ago (2 children)

However she pronounces it.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 4 months ago (22 children)

Right right right

and that would be ... ?


Oh, I found the video on her Youtube channel literally addressing this question back in 2016:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVGfzbP7WBY

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago
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[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

KAH-muh-luh HAER-is

Kamala (/ˈkɑːmələ/) Harris (/ˈhærɪs/)

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Fun fact.

In Finnish "kamala" means "awful".

We are gonna have endless dad jokes with this one.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

Karma-la... But drop the 'r'

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (3 children)

The Indian (Sanskrit) name is pronounced ka-ma-laa (meaning lotus), with no stress, and no gap in between the syllables. The first two 'a's are pronounced like the 'u' in rum, while the last is the same sound but longer (so like the 'a' in calm).

The US Presidential candidate's name is pronounced the way she likes, which in this case is closer to ko-ma-laa.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I think it's pronounced Kah-muh-lah

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Anyone have the IPA pronunciation?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Anyone else craving olives after reading this thread?

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