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Win or lose it would be nice to think by the end of Saturday that we could actually start pronouncing his name correctly. Clearly there is no hope for Alastair Down who appears to have swallowed Julian Wilson’s dictionary but I don’t think there is much excuse for the rest of them.
Not wishing to get into an argument over putting an ‘r’ into words, as a Yorkshireman I’ve been through this so many times with people, but the dictionary says you pronouncedthe middle bit of a word such as glass as you would barn so technically it would be glarss. Most people say warter not wat-er or farther and not fath-er (well except in most parts of Yorkshire)
How do you know Seb doesnt pronounce it as Sarnders Ive not heard many call him Sand-ers?
This argument will run for a while I can see it.
You say to-may-toe and I say to-mah-toe, etc.
What is genuinely wrong is rendering the name as "Saunders", as one or two of the presenters on News 24 seem rather fond of doing.
Ah well, at least they’re talking about the sport away from the dedicated channels, I suppose.
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Or "Larry"?
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Who cares as without his bad injury that kept him out for a long time the champion jockey would have been called Ryan
Try pronouncing Saifudin Ismail, Saimee Jumaat, Din Azis and Soo Khoo Beng correctly, I’ve dislocated my jaw on several occasions since being here… and don’t get me started on having first names last in writing but not in speaking…. or is that the other way around?
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Not wishing to get into an argument over putting an ‘r’ into words, as a Yorkshireman I’ve been through this so many times with people, but the dictionary says you pronouncedthe middle bit of a word such as glass as you would barn so technically it would be glarss. Most people say warter not wat-er or farther and not fath-er (well except in most parts of Yorkshire)
How do you know Seb doesnt pronounce it as Sarnders Ive not heard many call him Sand-ers?
This argument will run for a while I can see it.
Thank you for that – most educational. I must read my dictionary again – thank the lord I didn’t take it up with the chap in Harrods when he directed me to the Glarssware Department. Are you also allowed to insert an ‘r’ into off like Julian used to do?
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