# Warren Buffett Pronunciation

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 26, 2021, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warren-buffett-pronunciation/947330 "2021-07-26T13:33:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2021, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warren-buffett-pronunciation/947330/21 "2021-07-27T22:10:12Z")

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What about the railroad?

NVM, found the answer.

> **[Reading Company](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading_Company)**
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> The Reading Company (/ˈrɛdɪŋ/ RED-ing) was a Philadelphia-headquartered railroad that provided passenger and commercial rail transport in eastern Pennsylvania and neighboring states that operated from 1924 until its 1976 acquisition by Conrail.
> Commonly called the Reading Railroad, and logotyped as Reading Lines, the Reading Company was a railroad holding company for the majority of its existence and was a single railroad during its later years...

I guess I’ve been mispronouncing it while playing Monopoly for the last 50 years.

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**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2021, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warren-buffett-pronunciation/947330/22 "2021-07-28T23:29:28Z")

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Warren Buffet is very approachable and quite a nice guy. He is easy to find at local restaurants. We were seated at a table next to him a couple of years ago.

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**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2021, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warren-buffett-pronunciation/947330/23 "2021-07-31T01:09:16Z")

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> [@TCMF-2L](#):
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> I’ve been curious for a while about this but couldn’t find a definitive answer after spending many seconds on the internet.

I know you’ve been given good answers, but just FTR, Wikipedia has the pronunciation of his name right at the top of his page. It does for pretty much everyone with a name that’s not clear in its pronunciation (most names of very famous people, actually). I totally understand not wanting to try to decipher IPA, but in this case it clearly has a t at the end.

[/ˈbʌfɪt/ BUFF-itt]

Wikipedia is actually pretty reliable for basic stuff like this.

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