Names - phonetically

[ionel]

1 minute ago, bnwtwg said:

Steve-sun

or

Steve-un-sun

early on it was Steve-N-sun

[Fadzaev2]

53 minutes ago, Fadzaev2 said:

Pantaleo

Pan - tell- e -o

51 minutes ago, Wrestleknownothing said:

Funny, I was just watching his QF against Retherford last night and the first time the announcer said his name it came out pan-TA-leo. It hurt my ears.

I've heard it slaughtered more than once.

[D3 for LU]

D3...

Dee-Three

Dee times Three

Triple- Dee

Dee-Cubed

Duh-duh-duh, THAT'S ALL, FOLKS!

[MPhillips]

8 hours ago, ionel said:

early on it was Steve-N-sun

Only for the dummies...

[Fadzaev2]

Emil Deliere [7] - Princeton

M-eel Del a ray

Greg Wojciechowski [1] - Toledo

Woj a house ski

Dan Cuestas [1] - Cal State-Bakersfield (10-4)

Kway stus

[SetonHallPirate]

14 hours ago, Dark Energy said:

Let’s teach each other the right way to say some of the names out there.

First one - Hamiti

is it —

HAM - It - ee

or

ha MIT ee

??

Where's the Doc Emrick of college wrestling, @Jason Bryant, when you need him?

[ionel]

9 hours ago, ionel said:

early on it was Steve-N-sun

 

1 hour ago, MPhillips said:

Only for the dummies...

You mean:

[Jason Bryant]

HAM-it-ee

[Plasmodium]

On 11/11/2022 at 10:06 AM, Fadzaev2 said:

Pantaleo

Pan - tell- e -o

Pan-ta-lay-oh.   And you have to say with your hands.

 

[Max86]

Big Twelve

Big Ten

[Fadzaev2]

Yojiro Uetake......Yo  Hero You ta key

[ionel]

2 hours ago, Max86 said:

Big Twelve

tin-or-sick-teen-ormaybeonly-fore-teen

Big Ten

fore-teen-or-may-b-sick-teen

ftfy

[Fadzaev2]

yianni diakomihalis       yanni dee ahk a ma halis  

[MPhillips]

56 minutes ago, Fadzaev2 said:

yianni diakomihalis       yanni dee ahk a ma halis  

yianni - j-aw-n

[gimpeltf]

1 hour ago, Fadzaev2 said:

yianni diakomihalis       yanni dee ahk a ma halis  

Just the way it's spelled.

[BigRedFan]

TIL that Meyer Shapiro, because he is from PA, pronounces his name "sha-PY-roh" (instead of the everywhere-else "sha-PEE-roh").  That's gonna throw off some announcers over the next five years.

[Plasmodium]

10 hours ago, BigRedFan said:

TIL that Meyer Shapiro, because he is from PA, pronounces his name "sha-PY-roh" (instead of the everywhere-else "sha-PEE-roh").  That's gonna throw off some announcers over the next five years.

How about Sha-Peer-Oh?

[Fadzaev2]

Then there's Myron Shapiro.....