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01-30-2008, 07:46 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Central Alabama | | | Brett Favre (how do you pronounce his last name?)
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I have heard a lot of people (including broadcasters) pronounce his last name as FARV, but the V is before the R. It looks to me like it would be pronounced Fav-ray. |
01-30-2008, 07:47 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: College Station, Texas | | I say Farv.  |
01-30-2008, 07:52 PM
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01-30-2008, 08:40 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Wausau, WI | | It's pronounced F-A-R-V.
And Gard has personal issues. 
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01-30-2008, 08:49 PM
| | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: WI | | | Pronounced like Farve. Spelled like Favre. This is also coming from a cheeshead. |
01-30-2008, 08:52 PM
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01-30-2008, 09:02 PM
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Originally Posted by FL Knifemaker  Retired?? | Who said that? |
01-31-2008, 06:07 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Wausau, WI | | | Nah...he'll be back for one more year.
They have the youngest team in the NFL and came within one game of the Super Bowl. They only have one free agent to sign, so they will be even better next year. Plus Favre had his best season statistically this year.
He'll give it one more shot.
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01-31-2008, 06:48 AM
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01-31-2008, 07:43 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Northern VA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Pacman It should be pronounced Fav-ray, being of French origin. But he pronounces it Farv, because he's been sacked a few too many times. | fav-ruh, probably... but yeah it's pretty hard for Americans to pronounce a name like that correctly. You'll hear the same letter rearranging when we say, for instance, Havre de Grace, MD. The French "r" is difficult to say and such words sound totally wrong with an American "r." |
01-31-2008, 08:08 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Fort Collins, Colorado | | Hey, in the great Yew Nited States of 'Murrica, he can pronounce it "Jones" if'n he wants'ta.  |
01-31-2008, 08:32 AM
|  | My favorite songs were never heard on the radio | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Tulsa, OK | | Brett, Deanna, their two girls, and the entire Green Bay Packers organization pronounce it 'FARV', so I'm going with that.  |
01-31-2008, 08:33 AM
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01-31-2008, 08:38 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: Philadelphia, PA | | | I'm having flashbacks to the movie "There's Something About Mary" ... |
01-31-2008, 09:11 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Grand Junction, CO | | | Heard/saw him 'splain it on TV once.
"Farv", he said.
French or French-Canadian would be "Fav-ruh", with the emphasis on the "Fav", and the "ruh" kind of swallowed.
The family obviously subscribes to the " 'murrican " pronunciation.
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01-31-2008, 09:15 AM
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Originally Posted by dancehallclasher fav-ruh, | "But... What about... Brett Fav-ruh?" 
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01-31-2008, 11:34 AM
|  | Basement Clef | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Below Ground, Detroit area | | | I have been wondering how the 'r' got there before the 'v'.
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01-31-2008, 11:48 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Fort Collins, Colorado | | | It's them durn Frenchies. Doncha know they cain't spell? |
01-31-2008, 12:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: North Dakota | | | It actually had to be "dumbed down" for - most former athletes - that can barely pronounce it wrong, let alone try to do it the correct way. |
01-31-2008, 12:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Earth | | | I live in Chicago and we either pronounce it FahV-Ray or 'That druggie from Cheeseland" | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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