"How do you pronounce his name" Prospects

[WesternCollegeHockey]

Kyle Okposo

Ahk-poh-so?

It's actually pronounced oh-POH-so.

 

[Abyss]

I'm just taking a random guess at this one:

Yah-kub-Voy-ta

cool, thanks

how about Grigory Shafigulin?

 

[Haik]

Is FukuFiji pronounced ****-you-fugi ?

 

[hifk88]

Is FukuFiji pronounced ****-you-fugi ?

I don't think so.

 

[hockeyprincess]

I'm just taking a random guess at this one:

Yah-kub-Voy-ta

That's it exactly.

 

[Heat McManus]

It's actually pronounced oh-POH-so.

Ahhh. I still got closer than Neil Smith at the draft, "Ok-poh-sin"

 

[Heat McManus]

Nope. Hadn't heard that voice clip at Letsgokings. Not sure where they got it from. I'm not sure what to tell you about the Slovene speaker and Slovene TV, but I can tell you that when possed with the rather redundant question at the rookie tourny, Kopitar pronounced it "on-ja". The "ja" sound is a more like "shay" than "zay". I made the mistake of saying "an-zee" to him because I had never heard it pronouced before. He quickly corrected me with "on-ja".

Edit - I just PMed a slovene speaker and she said "an-say", not "ja", "shay", "zay", or "zhe". Now I don't know who to believe. I think next time I am just going to have him write it out phonetically.

Maybe he has a speech impediment I'd go with how Anze pronounces it.

 

[HajdukSplit]

being a quarter Slovenian it is 99.9% An-zhe, if not, he is not truly Slovenian

also look at the Slovenian spelling of his name: Anže Kopitar

ž in Croatian as well as in all the languages of the ex-yu is zh

 

[hockeyprincess]

being a quarter Slovenian it is 99.9% An-zhe, if not, he is not truly Slovenian

maybe playing in Sweden so long has affected his pronunciation.