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the pronunciation makes so much sense but I could not figure out how it ended up spelled that way & god bless journalists (from www.wired.com/story/how-to... )

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Excerpt from linked article: “aspirates the 't' a little bit. There is a little puff of air," she notes. In English we don't aspirate consonants in the middle of words; that's a feature of Maltese, where the name originates. The Maltese language is kind of a weird one because it's in the same family as Hebrew and Arabic but it uses the Latin alphabet. (Trivia!) For that reason, Munro says people who speak Arabic and Hebrew won't have any easier of a time understanding how to pronounce Buttigieg.”
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