Me So Hairy? Misadventures in LPGA Name Pronunciation

by Ryan Ballengee on Jun 7, 2010 4:27 PM EDT in Golfiness

After hearing every sports desk jockey in the last forty-eight hours mispronounce French Open champion Francesca Schiavone (not related to former WCW Monday Nitro host Tony Schiavone), it only seems right to do a story on butchering names. From LPGA Tour caddy Ray Kim comes this photo of how some announcers try to phonetically pronounce player names.

Yup, that's Hairy-guy. Maybe the guy isn't a Duke fan, but this is a bit much.

When I try to tell people how to phonetically say my name, I go with the very classy "Bowel-en-gee."

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Eueck!

Keep it clean, Ryan, for heaven’s sake.

by WendyUK on Jun 7, 2010 4:31 PM EDT reply actions

I've always used the direct

approach….“hello, how do you pronounce your name”? works every time, and used to be a wonderful pickup line also…jist sayin mind ya…..STUB

by thinker on Jun 7, 2010 4:39 PM EDT reply actions

just like

Juan Hunglo

"pain is only weakness leaving the body"

by progolf on Jun 7, 2010 4:59 PM EDT reply actions

It's truly amazing...

…glad it Schiavone getting mispronounced wasn’t just an Atlanta phenomenon. I had to make calls to several of the update guys at the station I work at to make that correction. The affectations American announcers use drive me nuts, too. Justine Henin turns into all kinds of idiotic sounds that even she doesn’t use.

Stub – we had a guy who actually DID get to ask Camillo Villegas how he pronounced his name, then decided that he didn’t pronounce his own name correctly. That one was too funny.

"this ball will fit in that fairway"

by courtgolf on Jun 7, 2010 5:21 PM EDT reply actions