Gary Thorne's Mispronunciations

[atl thrasher344]

Pever-lay instead of Peverley. Tore-burn instead of Thor-burn. Slatt-er instead of Slate-r. Burm-a-strov instead of Burm-e-strov. Bogo-se-an instead of Bogo-zhun.

That's just from the Thrashers!

 

[RandallRitchey]

Pever-lay instead of Peverley. Tore-burn instead of Thor-burn. Slatt-er instead of Slate-r. Burm-a-strov instead of Burm-e-strov. Bogo-se-an instead of Bogo-zhun.

That's just from the Thrashers!

How do you miss AN-TROP-OV.

 

[atl thrasher344]

How do you miss AN-TROP-OV.

Because... I have no idea.

Honestly those other ones bother me more (besides Burmistrov) because they are not even really that hard to pronounce. But yes, that Antropov one too.

 

[Hymanbrah]

I'll never understand why they don't correct him on these. The audio director should know what names he's said wrong and get him to do it over. They're paying him for this after all. As for a new crew, I think they should find their own people. Get real voice actors who sound great, will be cheaper, and can be in the studio far more often. The NFL 2K guys did this and it worked out well.

 

[MTP]

Troy Brouwe're

Antti Niemen

 

[Chessarmy]

I turned the announcers off to save my sanity, and I don't plan to revert until EA brings in someone different

 

[Abyss]

Widda-man

 

[Pajicz]

Myers is pronounced like Mayers, least in NHL 10.

 

[Timbo Slice]

Because of... anticipation.

This one drives me nuts.

 

[Backlund]

Because of... anticipation.

Every time I hear that, I almost shut the game off.

 

[Dylonus]

He'll call Anze Kopitar by his correct name in game...

but if you make a player named Kopitar on EASHL... He'll call him "Cop-A-Tar"

 

[Rob Nieds work ethic]

This is one that most announcers actually get wrong. They tend to pronounce it "Jahl-merson", when the J is actually silent or more of a Y sound. It should be "Hyahl-merson".

I've even heard one announcer say "Yahl-mul-son". I forget who it was but it sounded like he had a mouth full of marbles.

The H is the letter that is silent. The correct pronounciation would be something like "Jall-mar-son"

 

[Backlund]

Poulio instead of Pouliot

 

[Nabokov20]

Claude Giroux from time to time

 

[biturbo19]

They should just hire Bob Cole for the next one. All of the errors would add authenticity rather than detract from it. And when in doubt, the game could just default to calling everyone Gomez.

 

[TheMuumio]

Lots of Finnish names are pronounced horribly, also some Swedish names are butchered, especially the ones ending with -berg.
There are a lot of names that are pronounced passably or evel well, but some are just outright horrendous.

And yes, I'm being serious - I hate the way North Americans pronounce Finnish names List of some Finnish hockey players and their names being pronounced (audio)

 

[Pajicz]

Lots of Finnish names are pronounced horribly, also some Swedish names are butchered, especially the ones ending with -berg.
There are a lot of names that are pronounced passably or evel well, but some are just outright horrendous.

And yes, I'm being serious - I hate the way North Americans pronounce Finnish names List of some Finnish hockey players and their names being pronounced (audio)

It's really hard to pronounce the Finnish names right, they cannot do it on real broadcasts, so maybe it's not necessary to have them corrected in the game.

 

[TheMuumio]

It's really hard to pronounce the Finnish names right, they cannot do it on real broadcasts, so maybe it's not necessary to have them corrected in the game.

Well TBH honest my post was to meant to be more of a rant on the pronounciation on TV etc. but felt I could moan about it in this topic.

As I said big part of the names are pronounced well enough, but some are done outright horribly. If the name is even somewhere near how it's supposed to be pronounced I don't care, but some names are butchered quite badly and thus sound horrible.

 

[irunthepeg]

Troy Brouwe're

Antti Niemen

This one gets me every time How do you even get -en from an -i?

 

[sepHF]

Because of... anticipation.

hateeeee

 

[Polak]

On OTP I always hear him call Kopitar, kop-i-ter.

 

[justman]

I changed my name to Macho Madness one time (before his death may he RIP) and I saw that "Macho" was in the list of names that the announcers could say. I was ecstatic. Started up a game and what do I hear? "Mako" instead of "Macho". I couldn't believe it.

 

[Polak]

Wayne Simmonds sometimes gets call SIGH-monds

 

[Cousin Eddie]

i think they have the leave semin the way it is just because its funny. some others i noticed are ryan johannson is pronounced with the j, but gary thorne thinks its silent. Also, luke adam is always called adams. No big deal but still incorrect.

 

[Theon]

I'm sure its been mentioned already but an-TROP-ov is the worst one. He also doesn't say Mike Mottau's name right.