Hungary’s Orbán Defeated After 16 Years In Power

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They're all wrong. It's pronounced Maj-ears.

*cough*

 

[Soen Eber]

G, j, and y have always been scoundrels in the English language, having been press-ganged to represent all sorts of weird sounds.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Totally off topic, the Magyars, of Hungarian descent, that I’ve know in the US have all pronounced their name may-jore but the coverage I’m hearing about Péter Magyar pronounces his name mag-yar. You may now return to your regularly scheduled topic.

Mug-yar is how I was taught. I originally -thought- it was muj-yar, because the gy consonant is normally pronounced that way in the Hungarian language, a kind of "dj" sound. But when someone heard me trying it I was corrected. I guess it's a special case for that word.

M-W dictionary says it can be pronounced either way though, so now I just don't actually know, lol.

 

[Mona Eberhardt]

Cry me a river...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/02/orban-oligarchs-on-edge-hungary-wealth-tax-peter-magyar

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Balásy was among the most prominent beneficiaries of the Orbán era. His companies operated a network of poster sites known as the blue billboards, on which a succession of figures from the financier George Soros to the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, were designated as public enemies, in propaganda campaigns paid for by the state.

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