Pronunciations

People will sometimes vary

R added places where there shouldn’t be

Obama’s name is Barack and not the Barrack I often hear

Nation paper even printed Barrack on his inauguration last year

Usually I tolerate slight discrepancies

Not like when people add a “n” to names like De-nise

Calling De-nis, Den-nis is bad and the other way around

I find it hard to hear these without feeling my world upside down

And recently I heard a pro Sports Broadcaster from ESPN

Trashing the pronunciation of Safina, as Sah-fin-nah, so then

I wrote them, got no change; but our own Martin Parris knew

One must say Sah-fee-nuh, he sounded like he had a clue

Now if only I could get people saying Bah-rahk

Sounding as sweetly as Michelle, I wouldn’t feel so out of whack