Best Name We Learned to Pronounce, Spell and Appreciate

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A year ago we would have mangled it, with misplaced E’s and G’s. But in seven months — months that have somehow felt both short and impossibly long — we’ve figured out how to smoothly pronounce the name of our reliable medical leader, Dr. Alex Jahangir. The M.D. and chair of Nashville’s Metro Coronavirus Task Force has brought his calming, dulcet tones, measured optimism, and necessary gravity to the city’s COVID-19 press conferences. He made sense of jumbles of percentages and reopening phases. Oh, and it’s pronounced “Ja-hun-GEER.” MARGARET LITTMAN