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Posted By: <b>Andy Broome</b><p>Since my question came from looking at images of pre-war newspapers, I thought this board would be a better place to ask...<br />I was going through some old newspapers today with a friend and we got into a discussion. How do you actually pronounce Tony Lazzeri's last name? Another name we couldn't agree on was Bert Neihoff.<br />I think I'm right but I thought I'd get some opinions! <br /><br />Andy

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Posted By: <b>Dan Bretta</b><p>Luh-zerry<br />Ny-Hoff

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Posted By: <b>Steve Murray</b><p>La Zeeeery

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Posted By: <b>Steve</b><p>Hey meatball!

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Posted By: <b>CarltonHendricks</b><p>I firmly believe they are pronounced:<br />La-zairy...(zairy like scary)<br />and<br />Knee-hoff...(like Neiman in Neiman Marcus)<br /><br />I make my livelihood striving to ad-lib peoples names correctly, and those are no-brainers. One that kills me is the way some pronounce Napoleon Lajoie's name Lazh-a-way, but I've always thought it was La-Hoy....but I guess pronunciation all depends on what part of Tanzania you're from unless you have audio documentation of the subject pronouncing their own name.<br /><br />

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Posted By: <b>Jodi Birkholm</b><p>The "La-zsoe-way" ("zsoe" as in "Zsa Zsa Gabor") is derivative from the French Canadian pronunciation of the true French "La-zswah". Napoleon was of French Canadian descent if I recall correctly, so the first pronunciation I mentioned is probably correct.<br />EDIT--sp.

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Posted By: <b>Jodi Birkholm</b><p>And don't get me started on Eli Grba! (Actually, he's a nice guy. I once bumped into him online somewhere and we exchanged a few emails.)<br /><br />How about Joe Zdeb? Larry Biitner? Why the two i's? The second one seems wholly superfluous! <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>

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Posted By: <b>Steve Murray</b><p>"La-zswah"?<br />Nope...<br />"Lazs-wah"

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Posted By: <b>CarltonHendricks</b><p>So what about Zsa Zsa Gabor?...didn't he play for Cleveland?

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Posted By: <b>Mark Steinberg</b><p>Sometimes the phonetic pronunciation can also apply to a player's status. Such was the case with Tom Niedenfuer, who gave up lots of big home runs. <br /><br />A day after serving up back-to-back walk-off homers to Jack Clark and Ozzie Smith, a radio talk show caller asked how to properly pronounce his name. <br /><br />The disgruntled Dodger commentator spontaneously answered "Need-in-fewer... as in, we need him in fewer games". I always thought that was a funny reply.

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Posted By: <b>John Harrell</b><p>I cracked up when I read the Niedenfuer story. I'm sure at the time, tough, that the announcer and the fans were not laughing.<br /><br />John<br /><br />

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Posted By: <b>Jodi Birkholm</b><p>Carlton,<br /><br />Actually, it was Eva Gabor who played for Cleveland. After winning the title of Miss Hungary in 1936, "Double Zsa" went on to become Hungary's first dual-sport star, excelling in both lawn darts and frozen haggis-tossing.

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Posted By: <b>CarltonHendricks</b><p>O.K. now I remember her on Monday night haggis-tossing....what an arm!

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Posted By: <b>Anthony N.</b><p>Zsa Zsa was also a standout at the sport of cop- slapping.

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Posted By: <b>Bob Pomilla</b><p>And she changed husbands like Steinbrenner changed managers.