Located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean is a country that to most people's surprise is shockingly large.

It only has a population of 120,000 people, but it stretches over 3.5 million square kilometers of ocean.

And on top of that, almost everyone mispronounces it.

Learn more about Kiribati, the surprisingly large country with a very odd spelling

on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. I'm going to go. We might as well start this episode with the elephant in the room and the question that many of you probably have.

How the name of this country is pronounced.

The correct pronunciation is Kiribati.

Now if you look at the title of the show you probably said to yourself that it was pronounced

Kiribati. If that's what you thought I am not going to fault you for it because by all

known laws of grammar and pronunciation in the English language, that is how it should be pronounced.

Except it isn't.

The letters TI form an S sound in the Gilberty's language.

Hence what should be Kiribati is form an S sound in the Gilberty language.

Hence what should be Kiribati is pronounced Kiribati.

However, it gets far better than just the name of the country.

The largest island in the country is called Christmas Island.

And how do they spell Christmas?

K-I-R-I-T-I-M-A-T-I-T-I, Christmas.

If there are any kids listening to this,

and if you're ever in a spelling bee and get the word Christmas,

spell it like this and then get really angry and indignant when they say you got it wrong.

So with that out of the way, let's talk about the country of Kiribati.

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