How To Say my name! Pronunciation thread

[Eshnar]

It's reading threads like this that makes me thankful my middle school english teacher spent 3 months to teach us the IPA symbols.

 

[Red Rick]

For Dutch names: Every time you see a "g" it's time to get rid of all your phlegm. We're not Flemish.

As for Dumoulin: I don't know I don't speak French.

 

[tobydawq]

For Dutch names: Every time you see a "g" it's time to get rid of all your phlegm. We're not Flemish.

As for Dumoulin: I don't know I don't speak French.

My throat dies trying to say Greg Van Avermaet.

 

[tobydawq]

Any Estonians who could give a tip on Gert Jõeäär?

One of the more funky names...

 

[saganftw]

For Dutch names: Every time you see a "g" it's time to get rid of all your phlegm. We're not Flemish.

As for Dumoulin: I don't know I don't speak French.

do you pronounce dumoulin like samuel dumoulin or is there flemish/dutch/vallone version?

 

[BlueRoads]

First of all thank you for all your explanations so far already. I think I will have to ask more specific questions about those because some descriptions surprise and actually irritate me even more. Will do that with a bit more time at hand...
As to some names that I really have questions about:

• Majerus
• Vuillermoz (o or os at the end?)
• Antunes (es or esh at the end?)

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Let me repeat myself from from two years ago regarding the pronunciation of Vingegaard:

It's a compound word.

Vinge means wing and is pronounced like it's spelled. Stress the first syllable. The v is like an English v, the i is like the i in "wing", the "ng" sound is pronounced like "ng" in wing and the e is not silent but pronounced like the e in the English "the".

Gaard means farm and is pronounced a bit like the English "law" but with stød, making the word end sound like a finish and a shorter sound than law. And of course with a hard g instead of l.

I have read Ving-ge (IPA ŋɡ as in finger) praised as correct, but you seem to be advocating Ving-e (IPA ŋ as in ringer). Which should it be?

 

[Red Rick]

do you pronounce dumoulin like samuel dumoulin or is there flemish/dutch/vallone version?

I'm joking, there's no Dutch version we say it the same as Sammy Dumoulins last name.

 

[tobydawq]

I have read Ving-ge (IPA ŋɡ as in finger) praised as correct, but you seem to be advocating Ving-e (IPA ŋ as in ringer). Which should it be?

The latter. No hard G-sound there.

 

[tobydawq]

First of all thank you for all your explanations so far already. I think I will have to ask more specific questions about those because some descriptions surprise and actually irritate me even more. Will do that with a bit more time at hand...
As to some names that I really have questions about:

• Majerus
• Vuillermoz (o or os at the end?)
• Antunes (es or esh at the end?)

I think Boels-Dolmans did a video a few years ago where all their riders pronounced their names. Majerus was with stress on the second syllable, the j was something like the j in ninja if I recall correctly, and "rus" was with a u like in German and you do pronounce the s.

 

[Red Rick]

My throat dies trying to say Greg Van Avermaet.

Well he's Belgian, so no need.

 

[carolina]

Antunes (es or esh at the end?)

es

 

[saganftw]

Any Estonians who could give a tip on Gert Jõeäär?

One of the more funky names...

there is youtube video if you google his name, suprisingly easy to prnonounce just hard G in Gert plus Yo-air

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Tao Geoghegan Hart
Tay-O (as in Mayo, the county or the abbreviated dressing; a familiar version of Tomás)
Gay (very slight aspiration) gən (Although TGH himself is probably anglicised enough to not bother with the aspiration)
Heart

 

[carolina]

If you want to hear the portuguese names this website might help: https://pt.forvo.com/search/Amaro Antunes/pt_pt/

Just make sure you choose portuguese from Portugal and not from Brazil.
If they don't have the name of the cyclist, they'll have other famous people with the same name(s).

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Elizabeth Deignan is pronounced
Lizzy
Deig (like died, but hard g rather than second d) nən

Boels 2017 team try to say each others' names, with the owner providing an authentic version, here:

https://twitter.com/x/status/857289019612422147

View: https://twitter.com/lizziedeignan/status/857289019612422147?lang=en

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

If you want to hear the portuguese names this website might help: https://pt.forvo.com/search/Amaro Antunes/pt_pt/

Just make sure you choose portuguese from Portugal and not from Brazil.
If they don't have the name of the cyclist, they'll have other famous people with the same name(s).

The Portuguese pronunciation there is very much a -sh rather than -es ending as you suggested above

 

[Ricco']

The Portuguese pronunciation there is very much a -sh rather than -es ending as you suggested above

That's the brazilian accent.

In portuguese it's -es.

Pronúncia de Vitorino Antunes: Como pronunciar Vitorino Antunes em Português

Guia de pronúncias: Saiba como pronunciar Vitorino Antunes em Português com a pronúncia nativa. Vitorino Antunes Tradução Inglês.

pt.forvo.com

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

That's the brazilian accent.

In portuguese it's -es.

Pronúncia de Vitorino Antunes: Como pronunciar Vitorino Antunes em Português

Guia de pronúncias: Saiba como pronunciar Vitorino Antunes em Português com a pronúncia nativa. Vitorino Antunes Tradução Inglês.

pt.forvo.com

"Pronunciada por calb1 (Masculino de Portugal)"

 

[DoYouEvenRideBruh]

For Dutch names: Every time you see a "g" it's time to get rid of all your phlegm. We're not Flemish.

Petition to rename the language as Phlegmish.

 

[Ricco']

"Pronunciada por calb1 (Masculino de Portugal)"

That "Vitorino Antunes" pronounciation is the correct one. For "Amaro Antunes" they only have pronounciation in brazilian.

In portuguese, -sh is very much like a prolonged "-x". "-es" ends "abruptly" while "-sh" is more prolonged in time.

 

[Koronin]

Movistar has in each rider profile an audio file with each rider pronouncing his or her own name.

 

[Froome]

First of all thank you for all your explanations so far already. I think I will have to ask more specific questions about those because some descriptions surprise and actually irritate me even more. Will do that with a bit more time at hand...
As to some names that I really have questions about:

• Majerus
• Vuillermoz (o or os at the end?)
• Antunes (es or esh at the end?)

Es.

 

[davidsonduke]

Emphasis on the second syllable, not the first: it should be spelled Martínez (the accent indicates divergence from the normal stress on last syllable for a word ending in z), and because he is South American, the final sound is an S, not a Z (or a th).

I copied it off the Ineos website where there is no accent mark. But I just checked and in other places on the web there is one.

 

[RedheadDane]

Tao Geoghegan Hart
Tay-O (as in Mayo, the county or the abbreviated dressing; a familiar version of Tomás)
Gay (very slight aspiration) gən (Although TGH himself is probably anglicised enough to not bother with the aspiration)
Heart

And definitely not "Ge-O-Ghe-Gan".