Most Commonly Mispronounced Names in BJJ?

[chunglii]

Vinny Magaleages (sp)

Sorry Vinny, I cannot spell or pronounce your name.

 

[stimbox]

Kimura gets mispronounced as Kimora all the time, especially by Joe Hogan.

 

[Stacked]

Xande is pronounced like Shawn-G.

It irritates him when you pronounce it like Zan Day. When he get's irritated he kimura's you.

 

[Cash Bill 52]

After the no gi class my coach would say, "Put your gis on". But it always sounded like "Port u geese"

 

[wastedyouth]

I never speculated on how to pronounce Caio name, I was just agreeing with Mr. Violent.
But now it's solved, Kai- u Terrr... I'm glad I didn't toss my hat in that ring, I was WAY off.

 

[blackers10]

why doesn't sombody who can speak portugese actually just make a quick youtube vid and say all the names??

 

[redaxe]

Nguyen is pronounced similar enough to "Gwen" that there's no point in trying any harder than that.

 

[Human Bass]

Galvao.

I'm still not completely sure how to say it. Gal-vone?

Galv

 

[Human Bass]

Xande = Shan-jee
Terere = Te-reh-ray
Jacare = Ja-ka-ray

Non-portuguese speaker, but I've been around a few in my time. ^_^

All close, but no cigar.

 

[Human Bass]

why doesn't sombody who can speak portugese actually just make a quick youtube vid and say all the names??

Done.

http://vocaroo.com/i/s1cocIp42lsr

 

[Shizzx]

I'd imagine it being pronounced like Kai-Oh, and spelling it with a C doesn't seem that far-fetched?

Xande, to me, seems to be the hardest to pronounce, or any of the ones with 'ao' at the end. Galvao, i've heard with the 'ao' being pronounced as 'oh' (Gal-Voh), and as 'ow' (Gal-Vow).. weird stuff.

Edit: there's a local brown belt with the last name Nguyen, and for the life of me, I can never remember how to pronounce that.

Nguyen = "nah-ooh-win"

seems all the Brazilian names that start with "R" is pronounced with and "H" * confused as hell, and whats even funnier is some don't understand why we mess it up.*

 

[wastedyouth]

I couldn't get Human Bass` link to work!?!

 

[triangle killer]

Vinny Magaleages (sp)

Sorry Vinny, I cannot spell or pronounce your name.

Iv always said it as mag-el-hesh

 

[Stacked]

Nguyen = "nah-ooh-win"

seems all the Brazilian names that start with "R" is pronounced with and "H" * confused as hell, and whats even funnier is some don't understand why we mess it up.*

Actually it's pronounced like "when", the n is silent. The G is more like a W.

 

[BJJArsenal]

Pretty sure Vinny once made a long post on Sherdog about how his name is pronounced like 'Maga-a-lion'

 

[Calvo]

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