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re: Everybody knows that Alex is not pronounced “alec” right?
Posted on 3/9/24 at 7:58 am to TackySweater
Posted on 3/9/24 at 7:58 am to TackySweater
Jim Hawthorne started that stupidity. His name was Alex, not Alec. My Dad actually knew the man; they were engineering students together at LSU. 
This post was edited on 3/9/24 at 12:06 pm
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Posted on 3/9/24 at 8:03 am to TackySweater
It's Eleck-- at least that's what I always heard from the great Jim Hawthorne
Posted on 3/9/24 at 9:26 am to ColdTurkey
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You are either dense as an iron wheel or a troll. I would abandon thread, OP.
Are your feelings hurt or something because you’re saying words wrong?
Posted on 3/9/24 at 9:41 am to TackySweater
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This post was edited on 3/9/24 at 9:44 am
Posted on 3/9/24 at 10:01 am to ChiefCornerstone
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I’ve known several people with the last name Favre. None of them pronounce it the way Brett does, NONE.
Were any of them from South Mississippi? Just curious.
Posted on 3/9/24 at 10:10 am to Geauxtigersgeaux12
Alec Milazzo is our catcher
Posted on 3/9/24 at 11:15 am to jamarr
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proper names are proper names. you can spell it Alex and pronounce it dumptruck, that is how proper names work.
It’s pronounced “SHY-thead”
Posted on 3/9/24 at 11:38 am to TackySweater
His middle name was Alexander which is generally pronounced as Alig-Zander or Alic-Zander. If someone is seeking to use a shortened form of his name, it’s perfectly reasonable to shorten it to Alic or Alec when spoken, but to use Alex when written. His nickname was almost certainly used more often when spoken than written and the spoken version more than likely preceded the written version. If you want to argue that one is wrong, then it’s more accurate to say it is spelled wrong than that it is pronounced wrong.
Posted on 3/9/24 at 12:59 pm to TackySweater
quote:
I know the history and what not. But since his family messed up the pronunciation, why are we still using the wrong way to say it?
when you name something after someone, you pronounce the name the way they did.
Posted on 3/9/24 at 1:17 pm to TackySweater
quote:
I know that’s how people pronounce it. I’m asking why nobody realizes that they’re wrong when they do so.
WHO
GIVES
A
frick
besides you???!!!
Posted on 3/9/24 at 1:43 pm to TackySweater
His mama call him Alec, I’ma call him Alec.
Posted on 3/9/24 at 2:03 pm to TackySweater
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You are the one that said your name could be lion but pronounced tower, because……well just because lol
we had a football player whose name was spelled Domingeaux but pronounce DiMaggio.
This post was edited on 3/9/24 at 3:42 pm
Posted on 3/9/24 at 2:20 pm to TackySweater
You are one stubborn mf'er when you are wrong.
Posted on 3/9/24 at 4:14 pm to tigerinridgeland
Tangipahoa area
Posted on 3/9/24 at 4:42 pm to TackySweater
The town in Rapides Parish is "Ellick", the baseball stadium is Alex.
Posted on 3/9/24 at 4:49 pm to Nutriaitch
Where have you gone, Joe Domingeaux?--our nation turns its lonely eyes to you
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