Chipotle (chih-POHT-lay): The American fast-food chain became the centre of a viral trend this year, challenging Baby Boomers to pronounce the name.Cheugy (CHOO-gee): A trendy term popularised by Gen Z and used to mock an outdated and unfashionable aesthetic typically associated with millennials, such as "Live, Laugh, Love" signs.Mr Touma has created a breakdown of the proper pronunciations for the most common problem words: Other words and names which made the list this year include the Scottish city of Glasgow, cryptocurrency Dogecoin and Korean treat Dalgona. "As a non-native speaker, I must confess it's fun to see English speakers stumbling a bit for a change." "As a language teacher, it's always interesting to see that some of these terms are usually new colloquialisms, or are rooted or borrowed from another language. "Newscasters in the US have struggled with 2021′s new words and names while reporting on key sporting events, viral internet trends and emerging celebrities," according to Esteban Touma, a teacher for Babbel Live. The caption company said it surveyed its members to generate the list, which is now in its sixth year and was commissioned by Babbel, a language-learning platform with headquarters in Berlin and New York. Mitch Bowey works as a captioner, and is the man responsible for the typo that has taken Canberra by storm.
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