Am I famous? I don't know, but many people can't pronounce my last name!
I can't think of any scientists. All that comes to mind is the actor, Bumblefoot Crimpysnitch.
I can't think of any scientists. All that comes to mind is the actor, Bumblefoot Crimpysnitch.
Why is it always the Australians??
http://imgur.com/gallery/Zs23wTJ
Watch the 10,000 reviews of the new pathetic Ghostbusters movie and watch everyone try and pronounce Paul Feig's last name.
His now has now officially evolved to Paul "However the F you pronounce it"
Robert Moog the famous synth designer and builder. Moog rhymes with vogue not Moooog like a cow.
Eugene Wigner
Antonin Dvorak
A lot of these are pretty understandable since pronunciation rules vary from language to language.
I recall an ep of The Amp Hour where the pronunciation of "Nissan" came into question, and Chris declared something to the effect, that he and Dave were probably both wrong, but he (Chris) was closer. Correct on both accounts.
How to pronounce "Nissan" like the Japanese:
Not sure if you're required to say it with a tone of defeat like that...
NB: Nissan commercial in the US pronounce the final "n".
keeping in the electrical engineering genre, I have always been stymied by Oliver Heaviside. What sayest thou oh forum members?
Anyone French.
Laplace, Fermat, Descartes, the composer Saint-saens. French names usually look like they should be pronouncable to an English-speaker, as they lack any weird characters or pairings and are not laden with Zs everywhere. But they are not pronounced at all like an English-speaker would.
William
Will-yam (but you have to say it fast)
How to pronounce "Nissan"
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Not sure if you're required to say it with a tone of defeat like that...
NB: Nissan commercial in the US pronounce the final "n".
just like in italian
yes the tone of defeat is required for their (modern) crappy cars.
I always pronounced it David Bawi
Seen Canary - a shite for shore eyesh...
lol, I was thinking "
will.i.am"... Come on dude. Just accept that your name is William
Will-yam (but you have to say it fast)
That sounds like how they speak in the Black Country (Wolverhampton). "Will yam gaw tu the keetchin and get moy a cuppa tie?"
Physicist Louis de Broglie
Inventor Ernst Siemens
Physicist Heinrich Hertz
Socrates
(a lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he's pissed)
I did read as "Forum people whose.."