The names of a crater in the Gulf of Mexico, an Irish actor and the capital of Scotland were among the most-mispronounced words of 2022, according to The Associated Press, which published the list compiled by a Canadian company, The Captioning Group. Host Carol Hills and staff at The World newsroom talk through some hard-to-say words in the news such as Chicxulub, Domhnall Gleeson and Edinburgh.
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