O-line Name Pronunciation Help Needed

Submitted by Adamantium on

So I was just thinking about how I'm not quite sure what the correct pronunciation of Molk is, and then it occurred to me that there are at least five O-linemen whose names I'm just kind of guessing at, and have not really heard pronounced enough times to have it down right. So, a little help from the boards with the following please:

Dorrestein - I'm pretty sure I've got this, but just to be sure, It's DOOR-steen, right? Perhaps DOOR-styne.

Huyge - I think I've heard it pronounced HUGH-gee (gee not pronounced like "gee whiz," but instead like Guy LeDouche from Most Extreme Elimination Challenge). This one is baffling because it relies on ignoring letters that are seemingly out of place like Dwyane Wade.

Molk - This could go either way. I've been saying Molk like it rhymes with chalk, but I think the announcers in the ND game were pronouncing it like it rhymes with James K. Polk (cue "We are the mediocre [beat] presidents! You won't find our faces on dollars or on cents!")

Omameh - This one I think I've got a handle on. Oh-MAH-may. Accent on the middle syllable. It always makes me think of the Japanese fifth taste-sense, umami.

Lewan - Before I saw the BTN's Michigan preview, I'd been thinking LEW-ən, but they were saying le-WAN. I'm guessing they had it right, because I doubt they'd make an arbitrary change like that.

That's all I can think of for now. Thank you Steven Schilling for making it easy on me. Anybody else have any player pronunciation questions? This would be the place.

ChitownWolverine82

September 17th, 2010 at 11:02 AM ^

The G in Huyge? No, it is not silent.  It may be french, but that doesn't mean its pronounced in French.

Look at Brett Favre and the hack job those redneck southerners did on pronouncing his last name.  It should be pronounced like the Luvre (lou-veh), therefore it should be pronounced Fah-veh.  Never trust Americans to pronounce names and places with the correct accent.  That would make that person/place/thing Un-American.  Right D-Troit?

BlueBender

September 17th, 2010 at 1:09 AM ^

PRONUNCIATION GUIDE

Al Backey ...................................................................Back-ee

Jibreel Black ..............................................................Ja-BREEL

Seth Broekhuizen ...................................................Brook-hizen

Jeremy Ciullo ............................................................Chew-lo

Kenny Demens ........................................................Demins

Drew Dileo ................................................................Dill-e-o

Perry Dorrestein ......................................................dooris-STINE

Obi Ezeh .....................................................................Ehh-zay

John Ferrara ..............................................................fuh-RAH-rah

Tate Forcier ...............................................................Four-C-A

Rusheed Furrha .......................................................Fur-ha

Paul Gyarmati ...........................................................G-are-mahti

John Haarer ..............................................................Har

Will Hagerup ............................................................Haa-GRUP

Will Heininger ..........................................................Hine-in-ger

Stephen Hopkins ....................................................Steph-on

Mark Huyge ..............................................................Hugh-gee

Rocko Khoury...........................................................Corey

Taylor Lewan ............................................................La-wan

Jake Matelic ..............................................................Ma-telic

Kristian Mateus ........................................................Ma-tay-us

Justin Meram............................................................Mare-um

Phil Monolo ..............................................................Mo-no-lo

Mark Moundros .......................................................MOON-drose

Jonas Mouton ..........................................................MOO-tahn

Patrick Omameh .....................................................O-ma-MAY

Jordan Paskorz ........................................................Pass-korz

Kris Pauloski ..............................................................Pa-lowski

Craig Roh ...................................................................Row

Renaldo Sagesse .....................................................sah-GAYSAY

Baquer Sayed ...........................................................Bocker SAY-ed

Scott Schrimscher ..................................................Shrim-sher

Je’Ron Stokes ...........................................................Ja-ron

Darryl Stonum .........................................................Stone-um

Terrence Talbott ......................................................TAL-bott

Terry Talbott .............................................................TAL-bott

Fitzgerald Toussaint ...............................................Two-sant

Ray Vinopal ...............................................................VIN-o-paul

Bocheezu

September 17th, 2010 at 1:13 PM ^

I thought it was simply Ko-vacks, just like it looks, and Tom Hammond kept saying Kovox.  I muttered to myself a few times about how annoying it was for him to keep calling him Kovox.  But then on his INT you can hear Cam Gordon yelling "KOVOX...BAM!" (or something) when he runs over to him, so I don't know what to think anymore.