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When I first met my husband, Jimmy Carter was President and my husband had a joke that he loved to tell and the joke started with whomever was First Lady at the time walking into a bar. So at the time the First Lady was Rosalynn Carter and he persisted in calling her "RAHZ-uh-lin" Carter, close to the way you pronounce Rosalind, just without the final D. Every time I told him that it was "ROZ-a-lin" with a long O and my sister told him the same thing when he told her the joke, and he persisted in ignoring that and continued to pronounce it the same way. But he did that with everything. It was always a waste of time to correct him in pronunciation.