{"id":214933,"date":"2026-03-11T14:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T14:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/214933\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T14:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T14:36:09","slug":"heres-how-to-pronounce-alysa-lius-name-it-might-not-be-how-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/214933\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s how to pronounce Alysa Liu&#8217;s name: it might not be how you think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/dc0w9zulyvnah3es.jpg\" alt=\"How do you pronounce Alysa Liu's name? \" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">OAKLAND, Calif. &#8211; There has been a lot of mispronunciation of Oakland Olympian Alyssa Liu&#8217;s name.<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">KTVU anchors Gasia Mikaelian and Andre Senior broke it down, explaining how the 20-year-old gold medalist says it, and then how some of her friends and family say it.<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">She also gave an interview to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/jUmm68s0yp0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Newsweek herself: <\/a>For the record, it&#8217;s Ah-LEE-sah Li-oh.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">You can also watch the video above to hear how it sounds.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">&#8220;A lot of people say \u2018Lew\u2019 or \u2018Lu,\u2019&#8221; she told Newsweek. &#8220;I personally don\u2019t care, because technically, the right way is \u2018Lee-oh,\u2019 but that can be hard to pronounce. I don\u2019t expect people to know how to say that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">Oakland plans to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/news\/oakland-celebrates-olympian-alysa-liu-ktvu-will-livestream\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">hold a rally in honor of Liu on Thursday at noon.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/alameda-county\/oakland\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/olympics\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Olympics<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND, Calif. &#8211; There has been a lot of mispronunciation of Oakland Olympian Alyssa Liu&#8217;s name. KTVU anchors&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[389,1184,100,143,145,144,10012,1181],"class_list":["post-214933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-alameda-county","tag-ca","tag-news","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-olympics","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}