Geoduck (1882)>McLoughlin

[FRITZ JUENGLING]

Back in the early 90's the MN Twins and North Stars had two players whose name were spelled the same--Gagne. THe North Stars' guy pronounced his name something like GAHN-yay.  Greg Gagne of the Twins was always GAG-nee
Fritz
>>> laurence.horn at YALE.EDU 11/08/02 07:26AM >>>
At 9:56 AM -0500 11/8/02, Robert Fitzke wrote:
>Does anyone know exactly how Bret Favre pronounces his name? I keep hearing
>Farv by the announcers.
>
>Bob

Farv.  There's a nice take-off on the orthography/pronunciation
mismatch in the movie "There's Something About Mary".  Ben Stiller (I
think, or maybe it was the other guy) pronounces it something like
"farv..........r".  Lots of athletes have similar mismatches.
Another one that comes to mind is the tennis player Malivai
Washington, whose first name is pronounced as though it were spelled
"Malivia".  Probably a lot of non-athletes too, but I don't know as
many of their names.

larry