Don't tell me this Harvard & Yale graduate U.S. Governor can't pronounce "Thai"

[theking]

Looks like DeSantis was doing it on purpose to judge his dates..:

Gov. Ron DeSantis used to pronounce Thai as ‘thigh’ to assess dates, former Yale classmate claims

A recent Financial Times profile on DeSantis, who will potentially run for president in 2024, cited people close to the firebrand conservative. It quoted from the pandemic memoir “What Just Happened: Notes on a Long Year” written by Finch, who went to Yale University at the same time as DeSantis.

“The author and critic Charles Finch recalled two things about his former classmate, known then as ‘D’: he did an uncanny impression of baseball star Jose Canseco and, according to a friend, would tell dates he liked Thai food, but pronounced it ‘thigh,’” the article reads. “If they corrected him, Finch wrote, he would find an excuse to leave.”

Finch said DeSantis used this first-date tactic because “he didn’t want a girlfriend who corrected him.”