How to pronounce "Maher"

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For the benefit of fans (and Cowboys announcers who couldn't be bothered to find out on their own), there are two options for how to Maher.

The first is like Bill Maher of HBO, who pronounces his last name like - "mar", similar to "car", or for you golfers, "par.

The second is the way Jason Garrett pronounced it in the press conference yesterday, which is, I presume, the way Brett Maher prounces it himself like - "mare", similar to "dare", or for you bleading hearts out there, "care."

I'm going to use the 2nd pronunciation, since I assume that his coach knows how to pronounce his name properly. But I'm not going to argue with anyone who pronounces it like the most famous "Maher" in America, the HBO talk show host.

What bothers me (and this goes back to when I taught in college, and believed it was a matter of respect to say the names of my students properly), is the idiots like Babe Laufenberg and Bryan Broaddus, who pronounced it with two syllables instead of one. How hard was it for either of them to walk into the locker room and just ask the guy how to pronounce his name?

How lazy do you have to be when you're seconds away from the guy to not even take the time to get his name right. It shows an utter lack of respect for a human being to not know how to pronounce his name properly, when you have direct access to the source. I literally watched a Cowboys Live show yesterday, and they were debating how to say his name. Dave Helman said, "Well, now that he's the new kicker, I suppose we'll have to learn how to say his name." So he wasn't human enough to find out in training camp, Dave? Really? And the press wonders why we hate them...

Elitist pieces of ....
 
Streetwise said:
You must be a blast at parties. :lmao:
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I have a thing about respecting other people enough to find out how to say their names properly. For those who don't have access to the man himself, I understand not knowing how to say his name. For the people who could just walk in and talk to him, like Babe Laufenberg & Bill Johnson, who announced the preseason games, and Bryan Broaddus and Dave Helman, who were paid to spend a month at training camp, I have much less patience with the disrespect they show.

People actually enjoy me at parties. But if I meet someone new whose name is difficult, I have the courtesy to ask them how to say their name. There was a new woman at my work place whose name is "Icosipentarhos", an obvious Greek name. I simply asked her how to say her name. She wasn't offended. She appreciated that I cared enough to ask, so I could call her by the right name.

I'm talking about respect, not grammar. Names are notoriously non-grammatical in how they're pronounced. Coach Keith Richard pronounces his name ri-SHARD, with the accent on the second syllable, instead of RI-cherd, with the accent on the first syllable. If those in daily contact with the man respect him enough to say his name non-grammatically, why don't they also respect a player enough to learn how to say his name non-grammatically?

So, if being the life of the party means saying everyone's name improperly, then I suppose I'm not fun at parties - because I think showing respect means saying their names the way they prefer them to be said.
 
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bb721 said:
So only bleeding hearts use the word care? :facepalm:
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It was meant as a joke, just like I wanted to spell golfers "golphers" [sic], but I didn't think people would get the joke of an intentional misspelling in a post about how to say someone's name properly.
 
I am sure he will get a new name once he misses an extra point or a fg
English isn’t my first language but if I were to pronounce his name I would say ma-her
Could be wrong
 
panchucko said:
I am sure he will get a new name once he misses an extra point or a fg
English isn’t my first language but if I were to pronounce his name I would say ma-her
Could be wrong
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You have several excuses.

1) saying his name grammatically makes sense - even though many, many names are not pronounced grammatically
2) you don't have direct access to Brett Maher to ask him personally how to say his name
3) you don't have an obligation to the public, because of a TV or Web-based show, to say his name correctly so the general public knows how to say his name right.

I don't have a beef with fans who get it wrong. The purpose of this thread is to help other fans learn how to say his name properly. But, I have a problem with TV announcers and employees of the Dallas Cowboys organization who didn't bother to take the time to find out how to say it properly.

And I will happily admit that this is a high priority pet peeve of mine. If I met you, and the pronunciation of your name wasn't obvious, I would simply ask you how to say your name. It's a point of respect from me to you, to say your name the way you prefer it to be said. To do less shows disrespect for you, which is something I try to avoid.
 
David Buehler is the only kicker that I learned to pronounce correctly, he insisted......
 
Mayer has some fruity songs, but the womens seem to dig him.
 
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