Player name pronunciations?
Focused on the 2019 football recruiting class. This is how I hear the names in my head, but wondering what's actually correct.
Charbonnet - SHAR-buh-nay (like chardonnay with a "b")
Trente Jones - TREN-tay
Mazi Smith - may-zee or mozzie?
Sainristil - SAN-ri-steel
Giles Jackson - we know from UV that it's Jiles
And I still don't know how to pronounce Gemon Green... JEM-on?
August 19th, 2019 at 4:27 PM ^
I wonder if Harbaugh is going to get Metellus right this year or if he just thinks "metal-us" is too..uh..metal to abandon.
August 19th, 2019 at 4:33 PM ^
He got it wrong at big media days. Cracks me up every time.
August 19th, 2019 at 5:13 PM ^
I believe it's pronounced mar- TELL-us.
August 19th, 2019 at 5:40 PM ^
It’s Heavy Metellus.
August 19th, 2019 at 6:23 PM ^
And I believe that there isn’t an “R” in his last name.
August 19th, 2019 at 6:44 PM ^
thats the joke dot gif
August 20th, 2019 at 11:50 AM ^
August 19th, 2019 at 4:28 PM ^
I wish Vegas would place O/U lines on how many times BTN announcers will butcher names during telecasts because GOOD LORD I'M TAKING THE OVER
August 20th, 2019 at 7:05 AM ^
BTN announcers use Mr. Garvey's Pronunciation Guide.
August 19th, 2019 at 4:29 PM ^
David DeJulius- Dee Who Lee is
August 19th, 2019 at 4:29 PM ^
AHN-go guh-BLOW-gee-in
August 19th, 2019 at 4:40 PM ^
charmed, i'm sure.
August 19th, 2019 at 10:55 PM ^
What about Harry Paratestes?
August 19th, 2019 at 4:30 PM ^
I believe you are correct on all of these, and its Mozzie.
August 19th, 2019 at 4:48 PM ^
I read Mozzie as sounding like "Moe-Zee". I think Mazi is pronounced "Mah-Zee".
Actually, I think we agree if "ozz" = "ahz".
August 19th, 2019 at 6:09 PM ^
Do you say Foe-zee Bear?
August 19th, 2019 at 6:46 PM ^
Don't make the username look bad bro.
August 19th, 2019 at 4:31 PM ^
Only one I hear differently in my head is Sainristil. I hear Sane-ri-still.
August 20th, 2019 at 2:11 PM ^
My two years of high school French tell me it should be "Loo-EE-gee Vil-LAN" but somehow I don't think that's coming out of Brandstatter's mouth. Carl Grapentine might get it right though.
August 19th, 2019 at 4:37 PM ^
Check the last 20 seconds of this interview with Nico he says Shar-buh-nah I’ve heard it Shar-buh-nay everywhere else
August 19th, 2019 at 5:14 PM ^
Nico just has the name wrong. Sam was laughing at him about this on the show this morning.
August 19th, 2019 at 4:40 PM ^
Shea as "shay" really threw me off. I've been calling him shee-uh for 3 years.
Fun fact: Harbaugh is actually pronounced "Hair-bawf" but sometime in the 60's papa Jack got sick of correcting everyone and went with the pronunciation we all know.
August 19th, 2019 at 4:42 PM ^
I had a class with Gemon Green, he pronounced it as "Juh-MON."
August 19th, 2019 at 6:49 PM ^
Juh-MON dont stop!
August 19th, 2019 at 8:49 PM ^
We be Gemon, we be Gemon!
Thanks man.
August 19th, 2019 at 9:28 PM ^
+1 underrated.
August 19th, 2019 at 4:43 PM ^
One of my favorite parts of the beginning of the season is hearing the announcers call out new names. Quite often it varies significantly from how I had been pronouncing it in my head for a couple years through recruiting and onto the field.
August 19th, 2019 at 4:48 PM ^
If the announcers are on BTN, the pronunciations often vary significantly from reality as well!
August 19th, 2019 at 6:50 PM ^
Adds to the fun.
There have been times where I learn on week one the actual pronunciation, yet I still say to myself "eh, I bet the announcers just got it wrong. I'm sure it's Josh Yooch."
August 20th, 2019 at 9:12 AM ^
There's a drinking game in there somewhere.
August 20th, 2019 at 4:13 PM ^
This is actually the one that I came in here to find the official pronunciation for, because I've heard it pronounced so many ways with complete confidence before.
August 19th, 2019 at 4:47 PM ^
Official pronunciations can usually be found on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/umichathletics/sets
Unfortunately, the most recent football pronunciations posted there are from 2017, but there are 2019 rowing pronunciations, so it's still an active account!
August 19th, 2019 at 5:17 PM ^
I had a teacher in middle school who shared a birthing suite with a woman who named her daughter 'Placenta"... The lady heard it in the delivery room and thought it sounded pretty.
God, I miss Mrs. Fahenstock. Absolutely SMOKIN' hot!
August 19th, 2019 at 5:47 PM ^
Pretty sure that is an urban legend.
August 19th, 2019 at 7:27 PM ^
My in-law had a student named Shithead, pronounced Shith-eed. FYI, she is a girl.
August 19th, 2019 at 8:09 PM ^
I always thought that was a name reserved for dogs.
August 19th, 2019 at 8:13 PM ^
I doubt it. That's been going for years, along with the twins Oranjello and Lemonjello, and the girls named "L-uh"(pronounced Luh-DASH-uh), Female (fuh-MAH-lay) and a million others. Its all the same urban legend. Sorry for crapping on your joke.
August 19th, 2019 at 8:51 PM ^
The twin names were in Freakanomics, along with Temptress. Actual urban legend? Didn't know that.
August 19th, 2019 at 8:57 PM ^
Sorry, not familiar with Freakonomics, but see it was published in 2005. I can tell you a friend of mine in college claimed to have gone to high school (in Ypsi) with the twins - and that would have been mid-to-late 90s.
Same with Shithead. If I had a nickel...
August 20th, 2019 at 10:37 AM ^
Yeah I heard the same Shithead thing. And a couple others. Didn't find out until fairly recently nearly everyone has the same story. Shithead is always a student. The others always seem to be names nurses supposedly see.
August 19th, 2019 at 9:15 PM ^
It's not an urban legend. My wife did a clerkship for the Delaware Court of Chancery after graduating from law school, and she worked on a child custody case where the child in question was actually named Female.
August 20th, 2019 at 8:40 PM ^
It's always "a friend of a friend," who knows Female, Placenta and the twins Lemonjello an Orangejello. Pretty sure they are just tales, very very unlikely to true.
August 19th, 2019 at 10:15 PM ^
Ive also heard the Psalm pronounced pah-salm because they wanted a name from the bible
August 19th, 2019 at 5:24 PM ^
PAT-TUR-SUN
August 19th, 2019 at 5:47 PM ^
captains named - kemp, bredeson, hudson.
https://twitter.com/UMichFootball/status/1163566963236511745
August 19th, 2019 at 6:29 PM ^
Jake Roo-d-d-d-ock.
August 19th, 2019 at 6:34 PM ^
I still don’t know how anyone thought it was Giles with a hard G.
August 19th, 2019 at 7:15 PM ^
Just Brian who, if you've ever listened to any of the MGoPodcasts, is absolutely abysmal at name pronunciations.
August 19th, 2019 at 8:52 PM ^
Maybe he's a big fan of the J. Geils Band?