Will someone please tell Ross Lyndsay (off Today FM)...

Col200sx

. . . That West Brom play their home games at the Hawthorns, not the Harthawns as he says.

Grrrrrr.

Any other pundits/presenters that can't pronounce grounds, players names etc?

Panthro

maybe Woss has a speech impedimint...

flahavaj

Col200sx wrote: »

. . . That West Brom play their home games at the Hawthorns, not the Harthawns as he says.

Grrrrrr.

Any other pundits/presenters that can't pronounce grounds, players names etc?

TV3 as a station seem to have a policy of mispronouncing even the most well known clubs like Real Madrid.

5starpool

OK, done. He says Hawr Hawr Hawr, glad it annoys someone.

Mikeyt086

flahavaj wrote: »

TV3 as a station seem to have a policy of mispronouncing even the most well known clubs like Real Madrid.

There is one commentator in particular, the large guy with the oddly shiney black hair...

"Corlos Tevays"
"Rafa Benitays"
"Maxi Rodregays"
"Fanando Toerays"

after 2 mins it really does my head in.

I said that in a match thread once and I got "Why dont you just turn the sound off" as a responce... Great suggestion, ill just sit here in silence.

wexfordia

Correct me if I'm wrong but some Irish commentators don't pronounce Jose Mourinho's first name correctly.Phonetically the emphasis should be on a h sound not a j.

Also sometimes I hear references to someone called 'Alec Ferguson'

Pinturicchio

wexfordia wrote: »

Correct me if I'm wrong but some Irish commentators don't pronounce Jose Mourinho's first name correctly.Phonetically the emphasis should be on a h sound not a j.

It is José, not Hosé. If he were Spanish, it'd be Hosé.

wexfordia

Pinturicchio wrote: »

It is José, not Hosé. If he were Spanish, it'd be Hosé.

I stand corrected.

Pinturicchio

wexfordia wrote: »

I stand corrected.

Same goes for Brazil, where they speak Portuguese. For example, Julio Cesar. It's Julio, not Hoolio.

ironbluedun

what about the way the english commentators pronounced kevin moran and paul mc grath.........they just couldnt get it right. the tools.

wexfordia

ironbluedun wrote: »

what about the way the english commentators pronounced kevin moran and paul mc grath.........they just couldnt get it right. the tools.

Yes I remember the way they used to pronounce McGrath (Big Ron Atkinson was one culprit) but how would they pronounce Moran ?

BOHtox

On fm104 I heard Ruud Gullit( pronounced gullet not hullet)

The Volt

Phil Yagielka annoys the hell out of me.

Fittle

wexfordia wrote: »

Yes I remember the way they used to pronounce McGrath (Big Ron Atkinson was one culprit) but how would they pronounce Moran ?

I remember that...they pronounced it More-Anne..used to drive me mental!

The Volt

Kinsella or Kin-sell-a?

BERBA

Tim Cahill , Tim Cay-hill

dagdha

It use to drive me mad listening to the RTE panel afew years ago when talking about Ajax, they use to pronounce it A-jax and not I-axe as I thought was the name as I use to hear other commentators off different stations and other people in general pronouncing it I-axe but I was watching that Footballs Greatest on Sky a few months ago and Johann Cruyff was on it and he pronounced it A-jax, I'm pretty sure the Dutch master knows how to pronounce it and low and behold the RTE panel had it right for once but I think lately I have heard them pronounce it I-axe.

Namlub

Berna-bow :mad:

orourkeda

camp now

orourkeda

ac mee-lan

that particular pronunciation gets on my wick in a big way

gustavo

Trevor Welsh seems to think the name of the club is Manches United going by the way he pronounces it.

Also there was a guy on 2fm radio James Short who couldn't pronounce his "th"s at all was very annoying

gustavo

orourkeda wrote: »

ac mee-lan

that particular pronunciation gets on my wick in a big way

Well that's the way it's supposed to be pronounced Though no one in Italy would say AC Milan or Inter Milan it's always Milan and Inter

Coillte_Bhoy

Wasnt Roy KANE before he went across?

TheBunk1

Trevor Welsh on TV3 drives me nuts with "Rayo-Madrid" and some English commentators calling Keith Fahey "Fay-hee". Then there's Tony Cascarino who gets nearly every name wrong.

Pinturicchio

gustavo wrote: »

Well that's the way it's supposed to be pronounced Though no one in Italy would say AC Milan or Inter Milan it's always Milan and Inter

You mean Meeelan and Inter.

ziggy

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Namlub

ziggy wrote: »

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I'm pretty sure he pronounces it Cay-hill though?

ziggy

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Xavi6

George Hamilton used to say Yup Schtum all the time when talking about Stam.

Namlub

ziggy wrote: »

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And so there's nothing wrong with saying it where he is concerned.

Pierce_1991

Jack WilKshere gets used by a few

I think its Pat Dolan who says Gael Clich-ay

Daemos

Your man on MOTD2 was pronouncing Peter Odemwingie (odd-em-wing-gay) as odd-em-whingy, and Colin called him out on it. Wish more presenters would do the same.

keane2097

George Hamilton is always derided for saying names wrong, but more often than not turns out to be right.

Galvasean

Apparently in Mexico the letter V is pronounced like a B. So Arsenal's number 11 is pronounced Carlos Bela.

wobblyknees

Sami hooopiay
Jamie Caraher
Steven Jerr-aaaaard

TV3 Muppets.

wobblyknees

Galvasean wrote: »

Apparently in Mexico the letter V is pronounced like a B. So Arsenal's number 11 is pronounced Carlos Bela.

Incorrect, in Spanish, the letter V sounds like a soft B. Hence Vela sounds like Bela. To be more specific, you don't press your lips together when pronouncing the 'B'.

v3ttel

The guy on Spin Sport. Pompey -> PomPAY.

wobblyknees

Rooney10 wrote: »

The guy on Spin Sport. Pompey -> PomPAY.

Spin 'deadly buzz' sport? Do any grown ups actually listen to that station?

keane2097

Pretty sure Portuguese (or at least the Brazillian variant) pronounces "R" as "H" - i.e. Honaldo, Honaldhinho etc.

gustavo

wobblyknees wrote: »

Jamie Caraher

Nothing wrong with that IMO - Similar to Gallagher which we would pronounce without the 2nd g

pickarooney

orourkeda wrote: »

camp now

Is that not right?
http://fr.forvo.com/word/camp_nou/

keane2097 wrote:

Pretty sure Portuguese (or at least the Brazillian variant) pronounces "R" as "H" - i.e. Honaldo, Honaldhinho etc.

And the L is basically a W and the final O a U, the D as a J and the T as a CH (at least around Rio).

Draupnir

Also sometimes I hear references to someone called 'Alec Ferguson'

That's the correct way to pronounce the name, it's what Alec Ferguson would call himself. Or at least that's what he says in his autobiography.

keane2097

Draupnir wrote: »

That's the correct way to pronounce the name, it's what Alec Ferguson would call himself. Or at least that's what he says in his autobiography.

Pretty sure I've heard him complain about being called Alex in interviews before...

missingtime

Ports mouth.

Grrr!!! They are not separate words.

Big Pussy Bonpensiero

Forget which commentator, but when Liverpool were playing Athletico a year or two ago he started calling Sergio Aguerro Sean Og Aguerro...

missingtime

THFC wrote: »

Forget which commentator, but when Liverpool were playing Athletico a year or two ago he started calling Sergio Aguerro Sean Og Aguerro...

Ha ha ha ha!

That_Guy

Not sure who it is but was watching a stream of a Newcastle game this season and the commentator was calling Gutierrez, "Guti-yar-reys".

The fcuk?

joe123

The amount of times people call Xavi --zavi instead of the proper pronunciation chavi annoys me.

Sami Hyppia---often referred to as Hip-e-a instead of hoop-e-a.

Dirk Kuyt ---is it Kowt or Koyt? Ive been told its Kowt but ive always said Koyt.

ironbluedun

wexfordia wrote: »

Yes I remember the way they used to pronounce McGrath (Big Ron Atkinson was one culprit) but how would they pronounce Moran ?

kevin marr-an.........paul mc gratttttt.....

pickarooney

That_Guy wrote: »

Not sure who it is but was watching a stream of a Newcastle game this season and the commentator was calling Gutierrez, "Guti-yar-reys".

The fcuk?

As opposed to what? How do you normally say it?

smackbunnybaby

'BRRRR-BAAAHHHH-TOFF' is how he likes to be called I heard.