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Charlize Theron is a household name around the world. But it appears that we've been saying her surname wrong this whole time. Theron is actually pronounced "There-In" and not "There-On" or "There-Own." The more you know!

GRAYE MORKEL, LOCAL NEWS EDITOR

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"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."
 

In this line, Juliet basically tells Romeo a name is nothing but a name; hence it is a convention with no meaning behind it in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
 

Unintentionally mispronouncing famous people's names has become a habit. Here are nine celebrities whose names we've been mispronouncing all along.
 

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