How to Properly Pronounce Louis Oosthuizen
by Ryan Ballengee on Jul 16, 2010 1:23 PM EDT
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PrintAs Louis Oosthuizen has quickly become a (better) known name, the pronunciation of his last name has become a little bit of a puzzle. In the day and a half since his name first appeared atop the leaderboard, there have been a variety of pronunciations.
- Oooost-hei-zen
- Ooost-WAY-zen
- West-hay-zen
And hundreds more!
To clear it all up, reader Court sent in audio of Oosthuizen saying his own name to ESPN's Wendy Nix in an interview yesterday.
He says WEST-hay-zen, so that's that. Why couldn't it just be easy, like Player, or Els?
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Let me do this one TX
.Every man…at least those still breathing know what GOOSIN MEANS lol….STUB
The Goose
said it was OK for his name being mispronounced as he accepted it was difficult for non
S. Africans to pronounce correctly. Serves him & Louis right for appalling spelling (J/K as my surname throws most over here).
Don’t know where your minds are going!
the J is common – but I didn’t understand the lispy “z” sound until I got a history lesson. There was a Spanish king a while back who actually did have a lisp, so all of his s’s turned into th’s. Because it was royalty, you couldn’t make fun of him or try to correct him – so they did the next best thing…and changed their pronunciation to the way he did it, and it has been that way ever since.
(why does the word lisp have an s in it ? just seems mean)
"this ball will fit in that fairway"
It's pronounced "lithp" - perfectly consistent ;-)
See how I leave a space before ;-) in your honour?
That old story, eh?
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