Song: How To Pronounce Pete’s Last Name
“Most people have trouble pronouncing my last name, so they just call me ’Mayor Pete,†Buttigieg wrote in a 2016 Medium post, adding that it’s a common surname in Malta, the island-nation where his father was born. Buttigieg even posted a pronunciation guide on his Twitter bio: BOOT-edge-edge. That led Aaron Nemo, an associate producer on the “Late Show With Stephen Colbert,†to record a song that will help people remember. Here it is. Â