Gonna go up to a Republican lady named Angela and keep calling her anGELa and act confused why she's getting mad over an honest mistakehttps://twitter.com/owillis/status/1319760012605087746 …
Well, it's complicated Basically in real life almost everyone you see with the name "Kamala" is going to pronounce it the way Harris does, because it's a common feminine Hindi/Sanskrit name (meaning "lotus")
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People complained that Kamala Khan's name didn't make sense, because "Khan" is a surname associated with Muslims in South Asia and a Muslim family would be unlikely to give their child a Hindi name
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So her creator, G. Willow Wilson, revealed that her headcanon for Kamala Khan's name origin is that it's a neologism, it's a feminized version of the masculine Arabic given name "Kamal" ("perfection")
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