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Remember when J.K. Rowling casually dropped that bombshell about us all getting Voldemort's name wrong996 Archives

Well, brace yourselves, because it's not the only name you've been mispronouncing.

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On Sunday night, Chrissy Teigen posted the following tweet.

Yep, you read that right. The surname of everyone's favourite Twitter badass is actually pronounced "Tie-gen".

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The reason for this continuing error? Well, sometimes it's simply easier to go with the tide.

Here's first-hand audio of the correct pronunciation:

So, will this be the start of people finally saying Chrissy's name correctly?

Probably not. Like Voldemort, it seems that once people have said something a certain way for a certain length of time, there's pretty much no going back.


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