How em-bar-uhs-ing.
A Thomas Jefferson College presenter completely butchered college students’ names through the Jefferson Faculty of Nursing graduation ceremony on Might 9.
“My apologies for the phonetic spelling or pronunciation of the names that was on the cards,” the speaker mentioned through the commencement. “I would have been better just reading from the book. My apologies, graduates.”
Thomas Jefferson College defined that the odd supply was because of the means phonetic spellings had been proven on the speaker’s title playing cards.
She incorrectly pronounced a number of nursing college students’ names, resembling Jessica, Allison, Sarah, Louise, Virginia, Stephanie, Maeve, Molly and Elizabeth.
As an alternative of claiming “Molly Elizabeth Camp,” the speaker mentioned “Mollina—zabeth—cap.” For Maeve Elizabeth, she blurted out “May-vee Lee Zu-beth.” And Sarah Virginia Brennan’s title was pronounced as “Sayer Oo-voon Geen-goo Bree-none.”
However one title took many attendees abruptly, and that title was “Tha-mo-may,” often known as Thomas Michael Canevari Jr.
Because the presenter says, “Tha-mo-may,” many viewers members sigh in disappointment, and the coed frustratedly corrects her, saying, “It’s Thomas.”
Many individuals discovered it odd that the presenter wanted assist announcing Thomas appropriately, though the establishment is known as Thomas Jefferson College.
The college positioned in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, apologized to graduates for the embarrassing title mispronunciations that went viral over the weekend.
“Leadership and faculty of Thomas Jefferson University extend our sincerest apologies for the mispronunciations of the names of several of our graduating nursing students during our recent commencement ceremony,” the college mentioned in a press release posted on Fb.
The viral second had individuals roasting the college on-line for such a serious flop.
“It’s the fact that the college itself is Thomas Jefferson University and the person calling out the graduate’s names couldn’t pronounce Thomas… it’s literally the schools name lol,” one individual tweeted on X.
“As a parent, I would be [mad] if it was my kids,” a father or mother commented.
“Hysterical!! Glad our profs know what they’re doing!!” tweeted one other.
Even comic Jimmy Fallon joined in on the roast, sharing the clip on his late evening present, claiming “she did the impossible, she made a graduation entertaining.”
Nevertheless with three extra graduation ceremonies scheduled on Might 21 and 22 on the college, graduations can’t anticipate no muh-stayks.
