It's Sn(eye)der not Scchhneider

[Deleted member 14625]

David Villa pronounced as Davide VIYA

but veeya is right, the spanish way of saying it, if your going to say david villa with the L's then you may as well say david as in david beckham not david as in david silva

It's Beeya.

V's in Spanish are B's. Double L's are Y's.

Our Dave's surname should be pronounced Silba.

 

[CityCTID]

I think "YaYa" is probably the most annoying of frequently mistyped names on this forum. Why on earth would it require two capital Y's?!

And why do people call him Yah Yah like some posh fucker agreeing with someone. It's Yaya, like Kaka and Mama and Papa; not like 'I live FAR FAR away'

Actually, Yahya is the correct spelling and pronounciation

 

[Txiki Txiki Bang Bang]

David Villa pronounced as Davide VIYA

but veeya is right, the spanish way of saying it, if your going to say david villa with the L's then you may as well say david as in david beckham not david as in david silva

It's Beeya.

V's in Spanish are B's. Double L's are Y's.

Our Dave's surname should be pronounced Silba.

So its Bictor Baldes and not Victor Valdes ??

 

[laserblue]

Jonathan Pearce pissed me off last night pronouncing Klose as though it had an umlaut. It's pronounced like 'closer' not 'clerser' you dumb shit!

My fucking god that was annoying.
Needs to get back to robot wars.

Have your heard his pronunciation of Kallstrom of Sweden ?? "Shallschtrom"
Sir Killabot should have ripped his wanky face off.

that's correct. swedish pronunciation doesn't always follow english pronunciation. hence sven 'yuran' eriksson.

 

[Joehannes]

Another one that gets me is 'Lorente' rather than the actual 'Yorente' for Llorente

 

[Blue>Red]

but veeya is right, the spanish way of saying it, if your going to say david villa with the L's then you may as well say david as in david beckham not david as in david silva

It's Beeya.

V's in Spanish are B's. Double L's are Y's.

Our Dave's surname should be pronounced Silba.

So its Bictor Baldes and not Victor Valdes ??

yeah i knew that, but thats because they dont have a 'v' sound at all, we'd sound like dicks if we said bictor baldes is getting a transfer to balenthia.

i think the most accepted way should just be used, im now contradicting myself......meh

 

[Pigeonho]

Remember when we signed all the players in one go under Sven? GMR did a 'lesson in Bulgarian' in the build up to the West Ham match.

Bojinov is pronounced 'boheenov'
Petrov is pronounced 'p'trov',

A useless fact 5 years on, but a fact nonetheless.

 

[Pearcey]

Drogbar.

 

[kenster197]

It's Beeya.

V's in Spanish are B's. Double L's are Y's.

Our Dave's surname should be pronounced Silba.

So its Bictor Baldes and not Victor Valdes ??

yeah i knew that, but thats because they dont have a 'v' sound at all, we'd sound like dicks if we said bictor baldes is getting a transfer to balenthia.

i think the most accepted way should just be used, im now contradicting myself......meh

I'm still laughing at that. :)

 

[Sabster]

This seriously annoys the hell out of me!!

If it was a daily conversation between an average joe, then fine. .but when commentators get it wrong it is just a joke. Surely a part of there JOB is to pronounce the name correctly, when millions of people are tuning in, listening. It is pure laziness, because it is so easily researched!

The Latest one is Casillas, pronouncing it as CASS I ASS. Come on, how long has he been about now, sort it out.

At the risk of being clarkied, that's the correct Spanish pronunciation of his name...

No its not.

Recently they have been putting the emphasis on the the 1st syllable rather than the second and it sounds ridiculous.<br /><br />-- Fri Jun 15, 2012 9:31 pm --<br /><br />

It's Beeya.

V's in Spanish are B's. Double L's are Y's.

Our Dave's surname should be pronounced Silba.

So its Bictor Baldes and not Victor Valdes ??

yeah i knew that, but thats because they dont have a 'v' sound at all, we'd sound like dicks if we said bictor baldes is getting a transfer to balenthia.

i think the most accepted way should just be used, im now contradicting myself......meh

I think a lot of you are missing the fact that in Spanish the v and b sound are almost identical and nowhere near as pronounced as the respective letters in our alphabet.