Results tagged “multisyllabic”

It being graduation season, the Sun-Times has churned up a nice little human-interest piece about how graduation name readers must inevitably pronounce some very difficult last names. High school graduation name readers may have the luxury of practicing pronunciation beforehand, but we just attended our sister’s college graduation ceremony featuring thousands of students. The university seemed to have a pretty air-tight system though: student hands card to announcer with name spelled out phonetically, announcer reads out name, student marches across stage, clappaclappaclappa.