2023's most mispronounced words from the year's hottest topics

Some of the words tied to this year's hottest topics were also among the most mangled when it came to saying them aloud, with stumpers ranging from the first name of 'Oppenheimer' star Cillian Murphy to the singer SZA (pic) to the name of a sacred slab of sandstone used in the coronation of King Charles III. — Photo: AP

Some of the words tied to this year's hottest topics were also among the most mangled when it came to saying them aloud, with stumpers ranging from the first name of Oppenheimer star Cillian Murphy to the singer SZA to the name of a sacred slab of sandstone used in the coronation of King Charles III.

This year's lists of the most mispronounced words in the US and Britain were released Thursday by the online language learning company Babbel, which commissions The Closed Captioning Group in the US and the British Institute of Verbatim Reports in the U.K. to identify the top words that news anchors, politicians and other public figures have struggled with.