How To Pronounce Favre

[EjPwned]

how the fuck is it FARVE? when the R is after the V? it's french origin so it should be pronounced FAVRE as in favour.

[aozain]

Bou Foofer?

[sydney327]

It's actually pronounced "I got an state and fan base to hate me"

[ladysybylgrey]

while the player's name may be pronounced "farv" the word in french is pronounced "fahv" the r is almost silent and the e is totally silent.

[mcploxoboy]

fart??



[PicturaSonus]

It's actually "foofer"

[AzBsVF]

FUCK? 

[KeenSceneProductions]

Most people are too rough on this guy. Sure, some of his videos are idiotic for most English speakers, but videos that tell you how to say words like Favre and Nguyen are extremely helpful. I know how to pronounce Favre, yes, but I've heard a fair share of people say "Fav-ray". Thank you, pronunciationbook.

[volunteernation16]

You got it wrong. Bo-Foofer is the correct pronunciation.

[PuniperTV]

"Foofer"

[scottkube]

LOL this is this shittiest channel on youtube

[hackforloser]

Farve? The fuck

[BlastHardRock]

Nope, it's "Foo-fer"

[PuffProphet]

Faaaaaaaaaaaarf!

[AreYouAPedo]

@MarcelZager You've never heard of Brett Favre?

[MarcelZager]

@AreYouAPedo no, who is he/it/whatever ?

[AreYouAPedo]

@MarcelZager He's a famous American Football player.

[MarcelZager]

@AreYouAPedo okay, it's like this: I'm from germany, and here nobody cares about american football, There are no american football teams here, and nobody knows about american players...in germany, soccer still is #1 in sports

[TheFeelin89]

this is actually how you say it, people. it's a football player's name.

[rbaylis91]

Far-va: Can I get a litre of cola.

[5quarewatermelons]

this actually is how you pronounce it..

[MasterOfWin7]

Foo-fer

[Pimpmastahanhduece]

Im Officer Farve and I want a chicken fucking liter of cola!

[danw91]

farv?

[jagara1]

That's strange I wondered why the R was before the V - I have obviously been pronouncing this wrong all my life as a bilingual English/French speaker

[Flemagrimm]

That's how Brett Favre pronounces it.

Wikipeida also says this is how you pronounce it.

And Wikipedia is always right, right?

[scoobyrds]

FAY-VREH

[AreYouAPedo]

@scoobyrds IT'S PRONOUNCED FAVRE, IT'S JUST BRETT FAVRE'S LAST NAME.

[Archedgar]

LOL FARV

[JoeyCanPwnRS]

John Madden. John Madden. John Madden.

Favre Favre Favre

I'm laughing for real right now

[aarongtr180]

@JoeyCanPwnRS Question mark exclamation point question mark exclamation point.

[jacqueline716]

Hmm I noticed that a lot of Cajuns bastardize the pronunciation of their surnames...

Favre = FARVE instead of FAV-ruh

Philippe (as in Ryan Philippe the actor) = FIL-uh-pee instead of fee-LEEP

[rockkelle]

farv? r u dyslexic??

[Hook4100]

Dang,I've been saying it fav-ray.

[xosammijane]

I'd like to see a video of Brett saying his own last name, but until then, this video shows the way Americans say it. Deal.

[theEarlofChip]

brett farb

[eagleduzt]

You guys are idiots. With the whole fail thing. That is why he is pronouncing it. You'll say "Brett Farve" all day but it is spelled Brett Favre.

[tamtam299]

@eagleduzt Everyone please thumbs this guy up.

[EO2020]

American dyslexia strikes again.. The nurse at my uni was named Mrs. Emiello. SHE and everyone else would pronounce her name as Emilio... How in the fuck do you pronounce your OWN name incorrectly.. Wtf... Fucking wrong again.. Thank you states.

[xosammijane]

@EO2020 You actually believe a woman was saying her own name wrong? If that's how she says it then that's her name. Don't be ignorant.

[EO2020]

@xosammijane Unfortunately yes. It's clearly spelled and phonetic. Not being ignorant at all. It's in the spelling. Many other people at the school, including the Italian professors agreed - laughed and said nothing. What can you say? lol

[SixtehNien]

@EO2020 You're a moron. :) 'nough said.

[EO2020]

@SixtehNien ;) ! ! !

[seanaudi13]

worng. worng.  worng. Thta doenst mkae ayn sesne.

[blobloblo6]

Now tell them how to pronounce "Faure", since no one seems to get my motherfucking name right.

[mulv81]

@blobloblo6 "Fauré" is pronounce Fah-ray, as indicated by the acute accent on the E.

[blobloblo6]

@mulv81 For line of family, it's pronounced Fah-wur. Basically, it's like saying "power", but with an F.

[MetalB33rSolid]

areyoufuckingkiddingme.jpg

[arc27]

I don't see why English speakers need to pronounce it *exactly* as a native French speaker would...but at the very least, why not pronounce it Fahvruh? It's not hard, and it actually follows the sequence of letters... Apparently the guy who originally read this last name was dyslexic. Had to have been.

This switching around the r and the v is called metathesis, for all interested.

[AskJoe1]

fucking RETARD

[Schmiki24]

It's FA V R E and not FARVE! You fail at all your videos man... If you're american, DO NOT even try to pronounce french words, just don't.

[3t3rn4ldr34m1ng]

faw-ver....

[mulv81]

It's pronounce Fav-ruh. The R rolls a bit off the tongue.

It's French. I laugh every time I hear the American's say it.

Typical American ignoramuses butchering words. I believe it's genetic and cultural effects that cause the anomaly "Farv" to come into being.

[Phillogica1]

@mulv81 That's because the only famous American with the last name Favre pronounces it Farv.

[UndEADxShinobi96]

i used to say it fav-re but found out its prounounced far-vah like the guy said it, you havent watch any sports if u say this is wrong. and if its in any other language, prounounced differently hes sayin it the american way!

[cosmosman]

@UndEADxShinobi96 this is so fucking ignorant.....How do you say something that is in another language the "american way"......do you mean the stupid uneducated cunt way?

Seriously it's not that hard to gain some culture and expand your vocabulary beyond mispronunciations.

Brett favre is 1 thing...but favre on it's own is another.

[UndEADxShinobi96]

@cosmosman or you can see it tht everybody has seen this word as the football players name. nobody i know uses this word unless ther mentioning brett. hell i dont know wut this word means rather than a last name. seeing some comments ill guess its french, am i wrong? wen i say its the american way i mean we or just I dont know where the hell its from plus i havent stepped in tht kind of vocabulary or touched french. you guys dont have to call us stupid we just dont know. ther more than 1 culture

[cosmosman]

@UndEADxShinobi96 the problem is that this pronunciationbook dweeb...is presenting this surname as if Farve is the most widely accepted pronunciation.

French people...and most people w/ Favre or Favre as part of their last name do not pronounce it Farve.

brett pronounces his own last name improperly....and i'm guessing it's because an announcer at the beginning of his career mispronounced it and he just let it stuck because it's "easier"

[UndEADxShinobi96]

@cosmosman aahh i knew ther was something wrong with the pronunciation! but i do have to agree this some ignorants in america. this word everybody corrects me as farve so i just delt with it.

though my name Demail which is pronounced as seen "D-mail" but for some stupid reason people say it "d-MALL"! man that pisses me off! i thought they try to pronounce it as spanish learning a is an "AH" but then i thought thers no fucking way im ASIAN! this guy does need to show the origin of this word

[kefkapalazzo1]

are you going to tell brett favre how to pronounce his own name?

[lesliekwan80]

Even if you're not a native french speaker ... how the fuck do stupid Americans reverse two letters and come up with "farv"? Even pronouncing it as "favour" is better than this mysterious "farv".

[EWGFus3r]

lol @ all the ppl who dont know shit about #4 and his name

[gmfutube]

The legacy of the stupidity of Americans - in this case ones in Mississippi.

They also pronounce Carriere as care-rear, and another half dozen or so French names which got mangled in Mississippi many years ago.

[xcloudx01]

farv?

[TheCitroenn]

Favor.

[xmissmandymousex]

ummmmm guys i think he's going by how the football player pronounces his last name... so calm the fuck down

[OhGaspersItsBen]

Stale degenerate who can't speak French. Get off the internet.

[moonlolz]

You are so fucking stupid.

[TheAmazingAnarchist1]

Guys, to be honest, I've been reading through the comments, and most of you are missing the point. The point is not to be correct by the book, but to teach how words like this are commonly pronounced in the United States so you can use them in conversation without sounding retarded. If you say "Brett Fav-re" to an American, you will sound like a complete dumbass.

[n11lc2]

itt people thinking they know the actual pronunciation from a name

[granolagirl8819]

You're actually supposed to pronounce it Fav-re. Fail.

[abola2121]

That mispronunciation from a Black Lagoon episode still bothers me. :-/

[StoneageDinosaurs]

Again another R that isn't there.

[habde]

his name always bothers me because of where the r and v are

[fergie232]

fav-ruh

[DrDreamPop]

i think an announcer mispronounced brett's name way back when he was playing pee-wee football and then he just went with it from then on

[gmfutube]

@DrDreamPop No, the area in Mississippi where he comes from pronounces it that way

Favre is not the only name - Carriere & Saucier come to mind.  Pronounce these names correctly and some big Scotch-Irish redneck is going to be peeved at you and rudely "correct" you.

The funniest was a guy who moved from New Orleans named Carriere. He moved near the town of Carriere (locally mangled to sound like care-rear) and was constantly having to correct people - and getting an argument.

[sanandreasshole]

Fah - vreh

[FunnyJunkTV]

@sanandreasshole It's actually Fah - vruh.

[sanandreasshole]

@FunnyJunkTV now that i think abt it, its more like fah-vr because the e isnt pronounced when its the last letter.

[FunnyJunkTV]

@sanandreasshole It's Fah - vruh because english speaking people can't say shit.

[corncornrocks]

@sanandreasshole no necessarily, depends on the origin of the word. segue, for example.

[rvggarcon]

FAIL. There is no R before the V.

[DANKIDYD]

@rvggarcon STFU. He is pronouncing it like "Brett Favre" not like you would think to pronounce it...

[rvggarcon]

@DANKIDYD There's no difference, it's not meant to be pronounced that way.

[danielw1245]

@rvggarcon are you a fucking retarded? That is how it's pronounced. I'm from Wisconsin, I know.

[rvggarcon]

@danielw1245 It's not from fucking "Wisconsin"(where ever the fuck that is), it's French you fucking idiot!

[danielw1245]

@rvggarcon Brette FAVRE played for the packers for years and was beloved by many in Wisconsin, though now he is hated. He's been huge news so I'm pretty sure I know how to pronounce his last name.

[rvggarcon]

@danielw1245 His surname is FRENCH, not from Wisconsin. This pronunciation isn't even close to how it's supposed to be pronounced.

[danielw1245]

@rvggarcon if you are going by the original French pronunciation, then you are right. But when words-and last names-change from language to language, the pronunciation also changes. I noticed that you were from France, which justifies your confusion. I'm sure there are words of American and British origin that you would pronounce "wrong" by my standards, too. It all depends on what book you go by.

[gmfutube]

@rvggarcon you would go crazy in south Mississippi if you could hear what they do to Saucier and Carriere and other names.

I've seen a guy named Saucier get real pissy when his name was pronounced correctly. He quickly informed my father that his name was "So Shay"

I knew a guy named Carriere who moved  from New Orleans to a little town named Carriere. The locals told him he didn't know how to pronounce his own name and refused to address him correctly. (local mangling = care rear

[danielw1245]

@gmfutube oh wah wah. I'm sorry your feelings got hurt when you learned that the pronunciation of words can change over several generations. I'm glad you decided to come to youtube to blast your arrogance on the discussion boards.

Get a life!

[rvggarcon]

@gmfutube Yeah, I can only imagine. LOL

[gmfutube]

@danielw1245 The problem is Farve's ancestors and neighbors didn't know how to pronounce it correctly, so neither does he...or you.

Nice to see such ignorance spread nation-wide now. Thank you south Mississippi.

[danielw1245]

@gmfutube whatever man. I don't tell YOU how to pronounce YOUR last name. Brett Favre isn't a native French speaker. Deal with it.

Do you honestly expect Americans to pronounce every word of French origin-such as laissez-faire-with a flawless French accent? Because if you do, then you are the ignorant one.

[rvggarcon]

@danielw1245 Is asking not to reverse two letters asking too much? No one is asking to pronounce it with the right accent, we are asking not to say Farv, when there is no R before the V, I think Americans could pronounce it Fa-vruh, or faw-vaw. It really isn't that hard.

[danielw1245]

@rvggarcon I don't even care anymore. You just go on and try to stop millions of people-including every prominent news/sports anchor- to stop saying it like this. See how far it gets you.

[NewYorkFlavour]

@rvggarcon

This is how Favre pronounces his own name. Are you people fucking braindead?

[rvggarcon]

@NewYorkFlavour ARE YOU BRAINDEAD? If my name is Jones but chose to pronounce it JAW-HAWW-KNEEES, it doesn't make it right, it doesn't mean I'm saying it correctly.

The fact is that he is mispronouncing it. I know he is not French born, but come on, there is no R before the V, at least they could TRY to get A LITTLE closer to the real pronunciation, maybe like Fa-vruh or Faw-vraw, I think it would be easy for most Americans to pronounce it that way. Pronouncing it FARVE is beyond butchering it.

[rvggarcon]

I meant to say faw-vraw.

[BadgerCheese94]

@rvggarcon It's how Brett Favre's name is pronounced

[rvggarcon]

@BadgerCheese94 No it's not.

[ElBarto3131]

lol brett fauv-re

[cynicsfaith]

it annoys me that it's pronounced like f-a-r-v but spelled f-a-v-r-e. the "v" clearly comes 1st, so wtf?

[Shayynahh]

that's funny. i know someone with a last name spelt that way, but pronounced like

F-Aw-V-Ray