- Anthony ‘Albo’ Albanese, 56, has shared the correct way to say his surname
- His Italian surname is pronounced with a soft ‘S’ and a strong vowel at the end.
- Albanese is the first Australian Prime Minister with a non-Anglo-Saxon surname
Australia’s new Prime Minister Anthony Albanese shares the correct way to pronounce his surname, and something easy to remember that Australians can use to get it right.
Throughout the election campaign and his more than three decades in politics, many Australians have fallen into the habit of pronouncing the 31st Prime Minister’s name as if it rhymes with the word “easy.”
Liberal ads even campaigned against Albanese using the slogan “it won’t be easy under Alba-neasy”. However, that pronunciation is not entirely correct.
During a Q&A episode several years ago, Albanese said that his Italian last name is pronounced with a soft ‘S’ and a strong vowel at the end.
“He’s actually Albanian,” he said. “It depends where you’re from.”
Hear the right thing pronunciation in the video below
Albanese explained that his Italian last name is pronounced with a soft ‘s’ and a strong vowel at the end.
‘It’s a very soft S in Italian but the vowel is always used at the end.
“Nobody says Bolo-ney-sey, do they?” she asked, about the word Bolognese.
‘They should.’
According to ancestry.com, the surname Albanese is a southern Italian name given to people from Albania or one of the Albanian settlements in Abruzzo, Apulia, Campania, and Sicily.
Mr. Albanese is the son of Carlo Albanese from Barletta, a town in the Apulia region of southeastern Italy.
The Labor leader believed his father had died in a car accident until he was about 15, when his mother finally revealed it was the result of an affair with an Italian steward she met on a trip from Sydney to England.
Anthony Albanese (pictured) is the son of Carlo Albanese from Barletta, a town in the Apulia region of southeastern Italy. The surname was given to people from Albania or one of the Albanian settlements in Italy.
She met her father, Carlo, in Italy seven years after her mother died in 2002. Her father died of cancer in 2014.
albanian lord He took the Labor Party out of opposition for the first time in nine years when he was elected on Saturday.
The Labor Party is currently closing in on 76 seats, which would allow Albanese to lead a majority government in his own right.
Albanese was officially sworn in as the 31st Prime Minister on Monday and is the first person with a non-Anglo-Saxon surname to reach high office.
“I, Anthony Norman Albanese, solemnly and sincerely affirm and declare that I will well and truly serve the Commonwealth of Australia, its land and its people in the office of Prime Minister,” the new leader said.
The incoming parliament will be the most diverse in the nation’s history and comes at a time when half of Australia’s state premiers have non-traditional Western names.
Anthony Albanese (pictured, centre) celebrated his election victory with his partner Jodie Haydon (left) and son Nathan (right) and is the first Prime Minister with a non-Anglo-Saxon surname to hold office.