Na-quam, Nu-guam-a or N-gama?

[daz39]

3 hours ago, JohnM said:

Great thread! One more thing to have a go at, along with Refs, commentators, video refs, media coverage, stupid rules, the RFL......

There's no 'go', i am generally interested if any of those pronunciations are correct and if so which one.

[dboy]

Just noticed that Jon Wells called it Stade Gilbert Brutus rather than Jeel-bear.

[thunder pete]

18 hours ago, dboy said:

Just noticed that Jon Wells called it Stade Gilbert Brutus rather than Jeel-bear.

What does Gon Wells know?

 

[thunder pete]

22 hours ago, Wiltshire Warrior Dragon said:

Out of interest, dboy, how did your taxi driver in Perpignan pronounce 'Brutus'?  As in a Shakespearian  ' Et tu, Brutus' way, or with the second syllable pronounced to rhyme with the English 'too'?

Hate to point it out, but Shakespeare wrote "Et tu Brute" cleverly using the vocative.

[Wiltshire Warrior Dragon]

31 minutes ago, thunder pete said:

Hate to point it out, but Shakespeare wrote "Et tu Brute" cleverly using the vocative.

And Latin was my best 'O' level!  How could I make such a schoolboy error!

[JohnM]

Tomartoe... TomAtoe... Potarto... Just a pity we can't go to Paris... Er sorry Paree... at present and I was so looking forward to meeting Martin Off-ay-er... Oops... Off-yah....

[Griff]

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[Harry Stottle]

On this name pronunciation theme, has anyone heard the Aussie commentary pronounce the name of the Parra hooker Reed Mahoney, they say Mar-nee, I know a family of Irish decent with the same name and it is Mah-o-nee, which is correct?

Funnily enough I never heard the Aussie commentary in talking about James Maloney in pronouncing it Mal-nee, it was always Mal-o-nee.

[CmonTheBorough]

Ray French always used to pronounce Kelvin Skerrett‘s first name as “Trevor”.

[meast]

On 29/05/2021 at 15:19, Just Browny said:

One of the best in 'this Saints side'.

You mean "the St Helens club" surely?