Mispronounced names

[screaming fist]

On Eurosport Westra's first name is Leeway.

 

[Don't be late Pedro]

I spent about 15 minutes last night trying to wrap my tongue around "Johnny Hoogerland," without much success.

I assume that's because he called the police?

 

[Warhawk]

I assume that's because he called the police?

 

[Don't be late Pedro]

Haha. You set them up...

 

[ingsve]

Paul Sherwen's pronunciation of "Kessiakoff" doesn't bother me much, but he kept pronouncing "Fredrik" as "Robert" during yesterday's stage.

Well, on swedish TV they called him Kristoffer Kessiakoff yesterday.

 

[Cowgirlup]

The website is great.


I can totally understand why many Australians don't pronounce Jens Voigt correctly. One little pronouncation slip on national TV here and you could be getting many viewers ringing in asking why the commentators were swearing all the time.


I am having trouble saying Haimar Zubeldia. I just can't say his last name correctly at all.


I am also happy to hear how Vincenzo Nibali is really pronounced. Some presenters say Ne-bar-lee instead.


Thor Hushovd is hard to say correctly for me too.

 

[cineteq]

I am having trouble saying Haimar Zubeldia. I just can't say his last name correctly at all.


I am also happy to hear how Vincenzo Nibali is really pronounced. Some presenters say Ne-bar-lee instead.

For Haimar, the H is mute. Pronounciation should go like this: I-mahr. Soo-bel-DI-ah.

For Nibali = NEE-bah-lee
Australians tend to add Rs to names

- Stress upper case letters

 

[LaFlorecita]

Do they do anything super weird with "Alberto"? I imagine they turn it into "all-BER-tou", which should be perfectly fine. As I said earlier, adapting foreign names to the phonology of your native language is fine. It would be a problem if they were saying "all-beer-TOO" or something like that.

What about "el-BUR-to"...

 

[King of the Mountains]

i love Phil's pronunciation of Oscar Freire

 

[RedheadDane]

I'm guilty of one myself. For the longest time I thought it was Cade Levens...

Please don't kill me ACF!

 

[avanti]

With the accents and languages of commentators I guess riders names will often be pronounced differently. As long as listeners understand you the commentators are talking about is what's important.

 

[RedheadDane]

So, I've been looking through old threads - don't judge me - came across this one, and Dayer definitely isn't pronounced the way I thought.
Danish commentators have been saying it wrong for years...

 

[perico]

My all time favorite was from the Vuelta back during the Armstrong-Heras USPS era.

And he was followed in by "errr... ahhh... a rather large Basque name."

-Phil Liggett upon realizing that one of the Gorkas from Euskatel was high on the stage results that day.

 

[RedheadDane]

Love this gem from P-R last year:

"Evaldas what's-his-name, Dennis?" (Siskevicius)

 

[valentius borealis]

Re:

So, I've been looking through old threads - don't judge me - came across this one, and Dayer definitely isn't pronounced the way I thought.
Danish commentators have been saying it wrong for years...

Keep in mind that the person who contributed that is from Argentina.

 

[hrotha]

Yeah, his pronunciation of <y> is extremely idiosyncratic and it sounds nothing like the way it's pronounced anywhere else in the Spanish-speaking world. Here you can listen to Dayer himself pronouncing it.

I'm puzzled by the spelling, though. I always pronounced it DAyer, of course, but you'd expect it to be spelled Dáyer, with an accent.

 

[Escarabajo]

EEnao,
Jinao,
Jenao,

And probably many more different pronunciations for Henao.

 

[RedheadDane]

Okay, phew! I'm calm again. The D is pronounced as a d.
I just essentially felt everything I (thought I) knew about life shattering with a loud crack.

 

[Guybrush]

dayer: "die"+"yer"

 

[Escarabajo]

Dayer is not a typical name for Colombians anyway.

 

[GuyIncognito]

As others have pointed out, it's just the weird way argentinians pronounce Y and LL. Pay no mind to it.

 

[RedheadDane]

Actually, it was their pronounciation of the D that threw me off the loop.

 

[Alexandre B.]

Tim Willems
Robert Kiserslovski

(Thierry Adam)

And the irritating Alessandro Valverde.

 

[GuyIncognito]

Re:

Actually, it was their pronounciation of the D that threw me off the loop.

How so? Sounds like a normal D to me.

As far as I'm aware a D is pronounced exactly the same in every western language.

 

[RedheadDane]

Sounds more like an R to me... almost like "Rasja".
So, now I can't even believe my own ears?