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part of the South American continent -with millions of Spanish speaking people. It is Pehrez not PEErez. Good grief - what is wrong with you people. Can't you pronounce a Latin-American and South -American surname? How hard is that. I am so sick of this mediocrity.
Good fifty kid.

In reply to Chrissy

Should be Pereth

In reply to Raskil
Perez is Pehrez not PEErez

In reply to Chrissy

Dem men doing free wuk give them a lil break

In reply to Raskil
No - I praise then for being ahead of the rest by providing the stream and commentary - I demand very high standards from Guyanese and Caribbean people.
My great aunt and her siblings were the very first black owned real estate company in Harlem New York - she left then BG and made it to NYU. Her brother won Olympic medals. They left Berbice over 100 years ago.
My mother taught French at both Bishop's High School and St Roses.

In its early days, UWI had several Afro and Indo-Guyanese at the helm of our Medical Faculty.
I don't give a damn if it's free or not, standards must be maintained.

I praise them when it's deserved and I will continue to call them out when they bombard me with BS like PEErez.
See how fast they dropped it. Research pronunciations before coming on air. Beg the kids for help.
That is all for now

In reply to Chrissy

Dem nuh kno' seh name nuh change from langwige to langwige

In reply to Brerzerk
You should hear dem here on national news let alone cricket.
Irie FM has one a dem who makes up pronunciations as he goes along oblivious of the fact that he's supposedly speaking English. .

In reply to Chrissy

Preach it!

You’re spot on, in America if you don’t have high standards and will power you’ll be sleepwalking into mediocrity.

In reply to Raskil
The commentary has improved and will get better - they need some youngsters to help them with the stats.

In reply to Chrissy

Keep telling it like it is,Prof > Certain standards must be met and kept.
I too am tired of hearing such .

In reply to hubert
The descent into mediocrity is everywhere in this region.
And the people who attack us for exposing it and demanding better want the best for their children.

There is nothing stopping us from being bilingual(or multilingual) with native dialects and other international languages. I will not be part of this descent into irrelevance in all spheres.

In reply to Chrissy
You have said it dear Lady.

In reply to Chrissy
Chough Chrissy that's no different from gurl or borse.

In reply to Chrissy

Wow Chrissy, nice family history there. Proud of your great aunts and siblings.
I agree with researching how names should be pronounced etc (which is very easy to do). Sometimes though it could be accents because not everyone say things the same. I do cringe too when I hear especially the simple names being mispronounced like that.

In reply to positiveg
I get the accents part but it's like folks telling me that it's OK for Daren Sammy to say Brendon instead of Brandon but he does not call himself Deren so that has nothing to do with accent.
Do some homework - they are catering to an international audience.

In reply to Wally-1
Big difference - it's a name with a specific pronouncement.

We use a lot of dialect here, and I love it but I can still speak and write English and learn the correct way to pronounce a name. No retreat no surrender!

In reply to Chrissy

Two different names but Sammy is a two timer isn't he?

In reply to Chrissy

Whenever I go to Guyana because of our work in region 2,I am out in Suddie and Anna Regina and because of the humanitarian crisis in Venezuela you would be amazed at the amount of Guyanese who had migrated to Venezuela over the years, whose children can barely speak English and have now relocated to Guyana.Many of those children are now young adults and have to now learn English.

In reply to Chrissy

you come from sturdy stock my dear lady! standard should be demanded, once the public is been served, free or not

In reply to bird
And the Olympian was a medical doctor - just a lil black boy from Berbice,

In reply to Dukes
Maybe they can teach Spanish while learning English

Maybe they consulted with the kid and that is how he wants his name to be pronounced.

Just a thought .....

In reply to Chrissy

Of all the bad pronunciation in the region, you complaining about P-Res vs Pehrez?

How about:

Chandra-paul vs Chander-paul

Brate-wait vs Braffit

we gat nuff

In reply to DirtyDan



Holding use to say Shanderpaul I wonder if that used to piss her off too lol

In reply to Kay
Then why did they stop saying it?

In reply to Chrissy

Dotties use-Ed to say “laura”

In reply to DirtyDan
Brate wait v Braffit is complicated- both spelling and pronunciation differ in places like Bim and Guyana and various parts of Britain.
There is only one pronunciation of Perez and it isn’t PEErez.
Agree re. Chanderpaul.

In reply to Chrissy

Maybe someone tell them to ease up on the biblical pronunciation.

PEE-rez

In reply to WIfan26

Many Yardies pronounce his name that way. I think it's down to their accents rather anything else.

In reply to Kay

there is also Pires

90s folks in agriculture will be familiar with Victor Pires...i think he's a trini but worked here...and raced dirt bikes

Bajans used to call Venkataraghavan, you guessed it Venkat-Cadogan

In reply to Dukes

Thought it was Dem cat ran after a van

I heard rung tree from one commentator

In reply to Dukes

In reply to Kay

In reply to doosra
Trini as in BC

In reply to Dukes
The late Tony Cozier use to call him Venkyat.