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Login Register. Home What's in a Name? By: Gregory Favre. Whoa there, Brian. Brett is a distant cousin. In fact, according to the genealogy report, he is a cousin six different ways. Down South, cousins have been known to marry every once in a while, which makes for some interesting family trees.
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They pronounce it Farve as well; one's a pharmacist and one's a teacher, so no reason to pre-emptive mispronounce. The first rule of name pronunciation is that the name is pronounced the way that the named says it's pronounced. So if he says that "Favre" is pronounced "Smith" then that's the way it is. All the other explanations only come into play if everyone is pronouncing it differently than Brett Favre pronounces it.
I don't understand the "best answer" marks here I would have marked mediareport's myself , though at least maudlin mentioned metathesis, which is what's going on. It's parallel to the name of the Pedernales River in Texas being pronounced "Perdenales" by locals; in English, rC where C stands for any consonant is easier to say than Cr, so you get that transposition a lot.
And as Carbolic says, French names in and around New Orleans tend to be distorted in creative and unpredictable ways, so there's that as well. No, Mor-enn-o isn't "the right way to say it" because it's Spanish.
In the first place, the Spanish e is not like the English eh vowel, it's closer more like English ay, without the -y glide ; in the second place, the English and Spanish r's are utterly different. It's the right way to say it because that's how she says it, end of story. More weird U. French pronunciation stuff: Calais, Maine, is pronounced Callis.
I'm with the 'hat - I don't know why I got a best answer. Not that you should take it away or anything, though of course you're welcome to, but I don't know why my answer's a "best" one. What about Havre, Montana? This kind of mispronunciation is rampant in America. Anecdotally, in St. Louis, there's a Bellefontaine Road that's pronounced "Bell Fountain" by everyone who lives there.
Are you claiming Brett Favre mispronounces his own name? What an absurd idea. Please try to think more carefully about language. Languagehat, I know you never miss an opportunity to condescend, but indeed I do consider the anglicised version of my French name to be mispronounced.
I've used it that way all my life in Anglophone contexts, but I don't see that as its correct pronunciation. Surely if you agree this Brett Favre fella is allowed to pronounce his name as he chooses and thus consider other pronunciations to be mispronunciations then the opposite approach is also allowable?
I grew up about an hour from Calais and that one's always confused me. It's mostly just a bummer because the anglicisation strips all the beauty of the words. Havre de Grace is a really pretty name; "Hahvur dee Grayss", just not so much. You're right - mispronunciation was the wrong word to use there. Perhaps a better way of putting it is that these terms have been americanized?
I only meant to imply that the word it's pronounced differently now that it originally was. Best answer: All the other explanations only come into play if everyone is pronouncing it differently than Brett Favre pronounces it.
Which is exactly what some of the folks at the Favre genealogy site are saying - that Brett Favre just kind of gave up on getting people to pronounce it the way his own family pronounced it and just went with "farve" to make life easier for sportscasters. Here's a piece by a second cousin of Brett's that makes the point: I read recently that Brett said he gave up trying to tell people how to say our name correctly and went along so that now no one knows how.
And just when did Brett Favre give up in anything else? Yes, I know, some of our Native American cousins in Oklahoma decided to give in and have their name changed legally to the Farve spelling. But others held tough. I remember when Brett was drafted by the Atlanta Falcons, our son, Jeff, called and said, "Dad, at long last people will now know how to pronounce our name.
So, Brett, here's your chance. Set all of those sports broadcasters straight.
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