It seems that a whole lot of well-known individuals have names which might be a bit harder to pronounce accurately than we thought. Coming off the information that it seems most of us have been saying Rihanna’s identify unsuitable this entire time, it’s now come to our consideration that we’ve all been getting Margot Robbie’s identify unsuitable too. The actress says she loves listening to her identify spoken in her native Australia as a result of in America we do it in another way.
Talking on Australia’s Right this moment program (by way of The Each day Mail) Margot Robbie says she loves her identify when it’s spoken at house as a result of the Aussie option to say the identify principally skips over the ‘r’ in Margot. Robbie explains…
I simply love listening to my identify with an Aussie accent too as a result of in America, everybody hits the ‘r’ like Mar-go. This is (it is) Ma-go. It is simply so particular to be house.
Robbie talked about listening to followers scream her identify when she attended the Australian premiere of her new film Babylon. For her, it’s about the truth that listening to her identify mentioned that individual method means she’s house. She says within the interview that Australia is vital to her and that she loves to speak about her house and present it off to individuals who have by no means been.
Technically talking neither pronunciation could qualify as unsuitable, it’s simply concerning the totally different nuances and the totally different ways in which English has advanced as a language between the 2 totally different cultures. However after all, Margot Robbie grew up listening to her identify spoken with an Australian accent, so to her, that’s what qualifies because the “proper” option to do it, so she prefers that to the American pronunciation. For what it’s price, Robbie’s Babylon co-star Diego Calva mentions in the identical interview that Mexican followers pronounce her identify completely phonetically, in order that they hit each the ‘r’ and the ‘t’ in Margot.
It’s one factor in the event you’re any individual that has an unusually spelled or pronounced identify. We’ve heard of individuals, significantly celebrities, that merely resign themselves to having their first or final identify pronounced unsuitable. The unsuitable option to say the identify turns into the usual. Ask Brett Favre.
I’m undecided that the Australian pronunciation of Margot even works with an American accent. There’s one thing concerning the Australian accent that definitely makes that pronunciation appear pure. If individuals within the U.S. did begin calling her “Ma-go” I’m undecided it might work. Our accent simply isn’t cool sufficient.
It doesn’t sound like Margot Robbie essentially has an issue with the American pronunciation of her identify. It’s greater than she acknowledges the distinction, and so listening to the Australian method of claiming it connects her to her house, and so it feels that rather more particular.