Can anyone explain Brett Favre's name? He says that it's pronounced Farve, but how can that be? The V is before the R. Can someone explain?

lanfranco

Surnames, and sometimes first names, of non-Anglo Saxon origin are famously mangled in the U.S. (and elsewhere, if the truth be known). They may be hard to pronounce in English, so Americans simply use the pronunciation that seems easiest. Over time, I imagine, the Favre family found that everyone tended to transpose the "r" and the "v" and simply went with the flow. Oct 29 06, 5:49 PM

Ilona_Ritter

Do you know where is name is from then? Oct 29 06, 6:07 PM

lanfranco

It's French. He's from Mississippi and is of part-French ancestry. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Favre Oct 29 06, 6:31 PM

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