10 Celebrity Names You're Pronouncing Incorrectly

1. Charlize Theron

How You're Pronouncing It: Shar-lies Ther-own How It's Really Pronounced: Char-leez Tron or Char-leez There-on (Americanised version) The South African stunner has an Afrikaans name that people all over the world get wrong. "Theron" is actually pronounced "Tron" with a Dutch "r" and a short Dutch "o". But Charlize has compromised the pronunciation for the American public (she is a citizen of the states now, after all) and asked even praised Jimmy Falon for getting the "compromised" version right. "It's like music to my ears," she even joked, because she hated it when people would call her Charlize Thrown.
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