Terr-ee Hen-ree

What tosh. they pronounce it (or make an effort at pronouncing it) the same way he does... that's all. It's only polite to do so if you ask me.
If you came to S. America would you rather be known as Spindlay or Spindul? (the "u" is really a schwa - ə - sound) Because the "natural" Spanish pronunciation (virtually 100% phonetic) means the "e" on the end of Spindle needs to be pronounced. It's not really a SpindlAY as in hay but more of a phonetic short "E" as in met.

Only if they're Geordie.

I thought it was hay zeus.

I do like the way in Spain they translate Anglo names into their Spanish equivalent in the press. (The queen is Isabella and Prince Harry is Enrique).

Ah, I see you pronounce it with a capital ‘I’. Interesting, very moderne...

Er no. The Portuguese prounounce their Js, Spanish as an H sound so it is Hay-soos.

More importantly, if Jesus was Jewish, how come he had a Mexican name?

[No 3,536 h a line of 5,000 bad jokes. Ithankyou]

Tee airy on ree

He’s Brazilian so in Portuguese it’s jay Zeus. In Spanish it’s hay Zeus. But he’s not Spanish

Err, yes. Jesus is Brazilian!

This is from Wikipedia concerning the etymology of the name as it refers to Christ:

"The English name Jesus is derived from the Latin Iesus, a transliteration of the Greek Ἰησοῦς (Iēsoûs).[53] The Greek form is a rendering of the Hebrew ישוע‎ (Yeshua), a variant of the earlier name יהושע‎ (Yehoshua), or in English, "Joshua",[54][55][56][57] meaning "Yah saves".[58][59] This was also the name of Moses' successor[60] and of a Jewish high priest in the Old Testament.[61]"

So the initial sound seemingly has always been a y-glide, not a vowel like "ee" as suggested by the Greek spelling, nor a "dzh" sound as suggested by the modern English spelling, which has clearly come about because the Latin "I" was frequently written and printed as a "J" and led to Anglicised pronunciation. Presumably the same is true of Portuguese and (for its own pronunciation) Spanish.

So you mean to tell us that those commentators have been doing comedy accents with gross insensitivity for a couple of years? RACISTS!

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/dc/f2...ebdb2c9713.jpg

Sure, but there's no such word in Spanish, but we have a James and a Jesus in our language. Since these are old Hebrew names then surely we should all be using that pronunciation globally? How do the Jews say these names?

James in hebrew is ג'יימס
Jesus is יֵשׁוּעַ

I'll see if I can get a recording of these from one of my Isreali pals. I think it important that we are cultrally sensitive and don't have 400 million hispanics wandering around insulting the Lord.


Btw, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_(name) Doesn't mention spanish, this spelling is English. Who knows, maybe Rodriguez himself keeps having to tell the locals "no, it's James with a J" and they get it wrong. Imagine if we just pronounced all those with Irish names phonetically, because they are english people, such as Siobhan not "Shuv-on" and Niamh not "Neev".

everyone with an Irish name is an English person?

I can see this going well ;)

James is derived from Iacobus (Latin) by a roundabout route and the Spanish cognate is Iago (as in Santiago, "St James'").

lol not quite what I meant. My niece is named Aoife and we call her "Eefa", but if I followed the logic of our Iberian and Latin American resident friends I should be just calling her "Ay-oy-fee"

Lovely. So it is James in Britain only and therefore "Ham-ez" is a Spanish speaking insensitive ignorant bastardisation.

One for the teenagers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeJYCDgvbeE

Even Ian Wright made mention of Roy's subs on MOTD.

Disappointed that two defensive came on when we had Benteke and Meyer.

Rightly said we can attack teams an beat them so why don't we.

Absolutely diabolical dive from Abraham never even got a mention. Football really is a game for pussies these days.