‘Little House on the Prairie’ Star Reveals Why Everyone Said Almanzo’s Name Wrong

As all Little House on the Prairie fans know, the show’s characters had a slightly unusual way of pronouncing the name of Almanzo Wilder, Laura Ingall’s love interest. And as actress Lucy Lee Flippin has revealed in a new interview in BuzzFeed, the epic mispronunciation goes back to the nerves she felt on her first day filming.

Flippin, 82, portrayed schoolteacher Eliza Jane Wilder in the show’s final three seasons. With her thick glasses and red curls, Flippin was one of the series’s more visually memorable characters, inspiring fans to embrace their “Eliza Jane Era” in modern times.