Player and Set Pronunciations

[mybuddyinc]

Originally Posted by wolf441

It's OON-GLOB!!, but you have to say it with a strident German accent! That's the only name that my wife and kids remember from the T206 set. It's just a fun name to say!!

Steve,

Speaking of German name pronunciations: How do you pronounce your last name ? Wayl-ful ?

Although Austrian decent, Gross is Gross (as in "eeewww gross ), not rhyming with cross.

....... and speaking of strident German accents:

Schlei = Schlay

Wiltse = Wilt - za

[refz]

Larry Lajoie is the one that comes up the most. This is what ive heard over the years la-joy ,
la-ja-way, la-ja-wee. Ive heard more than one dealer pronounce it (la-hoy). Made me smirk.

[wolf441]

Originally Posted by mybuddyinc

Steve,

Speaking of German name pronunciations: How do you pronounce your last name ? Wayl-ful ?

Although Austrian decent, Gross is Gross (as in "eeewww gross ), not rhyming with cross.

....... and speaking of strident German accents:

Schlei = Schlay

Wiltse = Wilt - za

I've heard it pronounced a bunch of different ways. In my family, it's always been pronounced "Well-Full".

I once met a German woman who said it would have been pronounced "Volf-Lee", meaning "little wolf", but I've never heard anyone else pronounce it that way. And I think everyone in my family has had the nickname "Waffles" in school at one point in their lives!