It’s officially graduation season, friends, which means your feeds are full of proud families, folks celebrating the moment all their hard work pays off and, of course, viral moments from the ceremonies.
Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia is kicking things off after they had to apologize when a bunch of of nursing students’ names were mispronounced at their graduation on Thursday. While that’s too be expected for more uncommon names, the woman reading them completely BUTCHERED a ton of names that weren’t hard, like “Elizabeth” and even “Thomas”, WHICH IS IN THE SCHOOL’S NAME.
They ultimately swapped in a different announcer halfway through and eventually blamed it on poor phonetic spellings of the cards she was reading, but not before video went viral, drawing comparisons by people online to the classic “A-A-ron” sketch from “Key & Peele”.
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