[dangus]

This is literally the dumbest thing I’ve ever read. It’s “DSantis.” No vowel sound at all. At least in the New York Italian dialect. Just like “Byzantine” isn’t pronounced “Byezantine” or “Beezantine,” but you might get a little bit of an “i” sound shifting straight from B or D to Z, as in “Bizzantine,” but it’s closer to “Bzantine.” Likewise, you might get “DiSantis,” which always screws me up because I gew up with people named “DiSantos.” But they were “Dssantowess,” too.

[dangus]

Hit return and Meant to correct that and posted the wrong thing twice.

Meant to DiSantos was more “Dssantss” than “Dissantowess,” so comes out the same as “DeSantis.”

[Alberta's Child]

DeSantis brought this idiotic scrutiny on himself … by changing the way he pronounces his own name over time.

This ought to be inconsequential, but he’s down in Kamala Harris territory here.