America’s newest national monument would be Nevada’s Avi Kwa Ame (Spirit Mountain) National Monument. All 500,000 acres of federal land outside of Las Vegas.
Or as Slow Joe says, “I want you to know this is a big deal.”
Anyhow, it’s pretty obvious that our newest monument consists of a mere three words, three letters each. Of the total of nine letters, five are vowels. No accent marks, no umlauts, not even a single krouzek. All the better, not a Slashed O in sight.
One doesn’t have to be a native speaker of the Paiute language to at least coming close to pronouncing the name of this particular area correctly.
From watching the Twitter video below, it sure does sound as if the monument’s name is pronounced, “Avie kwah-ha-may.”
It’s not as if Biden is trying to pronounce the name of the village of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch (St. Mary’s Church in the hollow of white hazel near a rapid whirlpool and the Church of St. Tysilio near the red cave) in the Northwest of Wales.
Nonetheless, the best Biden could do was to slur out (then whine out loud), “Havenne Qua May… I’m having trouble.”
If his pronouncement of creating a national monument really is “a big deal,” then why wasn’t he briefed prior to his speech?
Even better, is it really all that much to expect him to at least peruse the speech beforehand, then at least ask what is the proper pronunciation?
So what if he just insulted the entire South Piute Tribe? Remember, this is the same guy who checks his watch during the Dignified Transfer of dead Marines finally coming home.
Biden completely fails to pronounce the name of his new national monument. pic.twitter.com/kB3n7Q1RZ7
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) March 21, 2023