Stupid question about pronounciation
 

Settle it for me please, because I've heard it both ways:

Is Goudey pronounced "goo-dee" or "gow-dee?"

I always thought it was Goo-day but I don't know why.

It's Goodee in Canada.

I've always said goodee... But I hear a lot of people call it Gowdee?

I've always said Goo-die but I hear a lot of people say Gow-die.

Oh goodness. I've poured my heart and soul (and wallet) into collecting both the 33s and 34s, and if I have been mispronouncing the set name all this time, that sucks.

Gow-Dee

Most of the dealers I know call them Gow dees.

So it rhymes with Howdy Doody. Take your pick.

How aboot Gow-Dee?
 

How-dee, it's Gow-dee.

I have never heard it differently, but then again I am not Canadian (it's 'aboot' time I revealed this fact).

Brian

I've always pronounced it Gow-dee. It never occurred to me to pronounce it Goo-dee, and I don't remember ever hearing it pronounced that way.

Put me in the Gow-dee camp. It would never in a billion years occur to me to pronounce that word "Goo-die."

GOW -DEE


How about bo-men or bow -men ?

Stupid question about pronounciation
 

Gowdy
Bohmin
Sweet CAPrel
Lah-zhway
'88 Done-riss

It was always goodee in my head until I went to a few shows. Everyone else I've heard pronounced it gowdee.

I always pronounced it goo-dee. Then I heard a few years ago that Gow-dee is correct. I still can't bring myself to say Gow-dee, so I have given up henceforth will say and think goo-dee, even if it isn't correct!


I DID however, start pronouncing Lajoie as Lah-zhway instead of La-Joy. Once I heard it pronounced on GOTT audio version. Lah-zhway sounds much better than La-joy IMO.

I have a Louisiana "French/Cajun" uncle called Goudeau. The French pronunciation is Goo-doh. In French, I believe "Goudey" would be pronounced "Goo-day". For what it's worth, I call the cards "Gowdys" I also say "La-joy" instead of Loo ah shoo weh. Here in Houston, the San Jacinto Monument is pronounced "Sann juh sento" instead of the correct Spanish "Sahn Hah Seen-toh" And San Felipe road is pronounced "Sann Phillipy" if you are a native Houstonian. FWIW...Rob

What about Bowman?

I've heard it pronounced like "Bauman" and also like "Bow (like the ribbon on a gift) -man". I've been collecting since the 1970s and I still don't know which is correct.

I've always said Bow (like the ribbon on a gift) -man. Even if someone told me Bau-man is correct, I doubt I would change. (just like goo-dee for me)

It's Gowdee and BOman.

Being from Southern Louisiana I automatically want to pronounce it Goo-dee... even though I've always heard Gow-dee. I understand that Cajun/French thing.

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It's also pronunciation and not pronounciation to be correct.

Someone told me that Bela, as in Bela Lugosi and Bela Bartok, was pronounced Bela. All this time I'd been pronouncing it Bela.

I'm sure the pronunciation in American hillbilly would sound funny to my ears as well. 😁

That's so silly, David. Everyone knows it's pronounced Bela.

Where I'm from, it has never been anything but Gowdee.
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I would love to see a pole on this as well as the Bowman topic o brought up .

Glad I've been saying Sweet Caporal correctly.

I hear "Sweet" "Cap" "Ore" "All" all the time.

Oops.....that's how I've been saying

Re: Gow-dee v. Goo-dee, I have never even it heard it pronounced Goo-dee

What about el principe de gales?

Pretty sure I know how to pronounce 'el' and 'de' but what about principe and gales?

principeh? princep?

yales? gayles?

El Prin-si-pay de Gah-laze

Goudey is pronounced G'day in Australia. :cool:

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That's how I've always pronounced it.

Gowdey

And I was born about 1 mile from their headquarters!

A member of the family told me eight or ten years ago that it was pronounced GOW-dee.

-Al

I attended several key Midwest shows from 1972-1977, where many pioneers were present, and every time a Goudey was mentioned, it was pronounced, "GOW-DEE". ---Brian Powell

Po-Tay-Toe, not Po-Tah-Toe

Toe-May-Toe, not To-Mah-Toe.

Let's call the whole thing off.

Goudey
 

I am in the GOW DEE camp.......don't really collect them, but that is how a dealer pronounced it early in my collecting career. No idea if it is correct...

Z

I've always heard it Gow-dee as well.

For the first time ever in a youtube video of all places I heard someone pronounce it bow (same sound as cow) man. I've always heard it bow (like a bow tie or bow and arrow) man and when he said it the other way it sounded so stupid to me and I actually remember saying to myself "OMG moron, that's not how you say it, stop saying that!" LOL

as for Lajoie...I've actually always pronounced that lah-zhwah (both vowel sounds like when the doctor tells you "say ahh")

Fear the Walken :cool:

Since this a pronunciation thread. Can someone tell me how to pronounce Lajoie?

Lajway

See this radio interview by Ty Cobb, in which he pronounces it LAH-zho-way:

http://net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=217869

Bronson Kiheimahanaomauiakeo ?????

Just like it's spelled.

I beg to differ. That would be

brawn-sun

Cobb and other anglophones might have pronounced it that way, but like most French names, they pronounced it incorrectly.
Nap's roots were French-Canadian, and here in Quebec the name is, and always was pronounced in two syllables not three... It's Laj-waa

I always pronounce it "EPDG." :)

I have heard it as Bow (as in ribbon on a present) and as Bow (as in bending low to show respect). I have always used the first way, but recently heard it used the second way.

Great way to put it . I always say it the first way as well .

Kiki Cuyler pronunciation
 

I hate bringing old threads back to life, but I saw a post recently about the mispronunciation of Lajoie in the American Greed thread and then...during some research on Kiki Cuyler I came across his bio in SABR and my mind was blown.

Kiki Cuyler's nickname rhymes with "eye-eye" and his last name is more like "Kyler". So it's Kai Kai Kyler. All this time I thought it was "Key-Key Cooyler". How he got his nickname is described in the first paragraph of the link below. Awesome!

https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/7107706b

No, that's pronounced "crap"

it's gow dee
 

it is gow-dee.

Amen.

Good point, so from now on its Laj-waa sil voo play

And lest we not forget Gabby Hayes famous line uttered to Mr. Rogers,

"Right as rain, Waa" from the old Waa Rogers Show.;)

One of my favorite threads.

Since you are on the subject, how do you pronounce?

Bronson Kiheimahanaomauiakeo Sardinha

He played 1 season for the Yankees in 2007.

It took me six months of living in the islands just to be able to pronounce the street names but eventually I was able to get my mouth around words like Anaehoomalu, Kaaawa, kamanawanaleia and da kine. The trick is to bust it up into syllables which isn't so difficult once you're familiar with some basic pattern recognition in Hawaiian words. Kee-hay ma-ha-na o Maui a-kay-o. Easy as pie. The Sardinha boys were local studs.

Prince Oana, the Pride of Waipahu
https://photos.imageevent.com/kawika...20_coupon_.jpg

It's Gow-dy...Rhymes with Howdy.

It's Bo-Min...Like Bo Jackson

I always pronounced Lajoie with 3 syllables...La-Juh-Way.

But I've also always said Hoe-Nus...and the smart people seem to say Hah-nis.

Cobb
 

Do you pronounce both b's in Cobb?

Only if you stutter.

"My girlfriend is named Lynn. She spells her name "Lynn". My old girlfriend's name is Lyn, too, but she spells it "Lyn". Every now and then I screw up, I call my new girlfriend by my old girlfriend's name, and she can tell because I don't say "n" as long."

Mitch Hedberg

This is good stuff. Being a collector since like forever, I have never even heard anyone pronounce it Goo-Dee until now. I have never thought twice that it could be anything other than Gow-Dee (like cow). Interesting though.

Just my two cents worth but I have also called Bowmans Bo-men pronounced like bow and arrow and Lajoie as Lazho-way. That American Greed pronunciation the other night threw me for a loop.

Fun thread.

JD

"Hah-nus" or "Hoh-nus" ?

Now everyone has me wondering.... is it pronounced "Topps" or "Tops"

great question. I always said "ho", but have heard many say "Hah". The narrator said "Ho" in the American Greed segment, but I hardly consider him an expert. What's the definitive answer on this??

Well, his first name was actually Johannes, and from wikipedia (which is always true ;) but in this case probably is):

Wagner was one of nine children. As a child, he was called Hans by his mother, which later evolved into Honus. "Hans" was also an alternate nickname during his major league career.

So it appears that Hah-nus is the way to go.

I have been fairly certain, for a long time, that his name was pronounced HAH-niss. It's nice to see that theory gaining a little traction.

Then why does Wikipedia say it is Hoh-nes?

But, have you ever eaten "Goo-da" cheese?

To rhyme or not to rhyme, that is the question
 

Good point. We're having a cook out today. Can't wait to try a Goo-dee on one of the burgers.

I bet I cough before I'm through, though it might even be too tough to chew.;).

And by the way, Hans, a bad kid, was his mom's onus, until he received his first bonus and became Honus.:D

Regarding Honus, I would imagine the audio of Glory of Their Times would shed some light on the matter...anyone care to share??

I knew several players who were friendly with Wagner during his coaching days. All called him "Hoe-nus". Interestingly, in spite of the total esteem in which he was held, not one man ever referred to him as "Mr. Wagner".

Actually, if you hover your mouse over the pronunciation portion of his name, it says the "o" is pronounced as in "body". Bah-dee, Hah-nus. ;)

Off topic a bit, but is it Brett Fav-ray or Brett Favor?