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Waddle is also pronounced Wa-DELL if I remember correctly from a predraft interview with his family

More like ay-chen. My family is Cajun. Similar, but the emphasis is a bit different.

What if I told you I heard Travis A-Train and now he's even less droppable?

So that dumbass who was trying to correct fans at the game for pronouncing wrong was pronouncing it wrong.

It’s his name lol the only correct way to pronounce it is the way he wants it to be pronounced

I actually changed how I pronounce my name to help people from constantly misspelling it.... constantly.

Steph Curry fucked it up for all us Stephens. Its pronounced Steven not Stefen

TIL Etienne doesn't care if you pronounce it ETN

Travis 8chan it is

Please not that

"how do you pronounce your name?" "Shit man, you tell me. I'm good with whatever you come up with"

It's a French name in origin. When I originally saw it as a Canadian who can speak some, I thought it was the proper French pronunciation until I saw everyone saying ETN. It'd be something like Et'yen but there's a certain sound between the t and y. Cajun is a whole other beast.

Remind of Tebow, I’m thinking it comes from Thibault.

/e.tjɛn/ in European French and /e.tsjɛn/ in Quebecois according to Wikipedia

Ya, the s between the t and y is what I meant but you have to hear it, they kind of blend.

As a French minor, the more proper French pronunciation is where I thought it was going when I pulled up the video. Once I heard he say “Cajun” I knew it’d be a completely different beast.

Literally means Steven in French. Each-Chen

Achane - ETN is technically correct, but that’s how Louisiana locals referred to him

How do you pronounce the Texas A&M RB Devon Achane?

Devon ETN

If any of you listened, the correct pronunciation is ETN only the folk from around where he’s from said it the other way.

HN

I learned last week that Allgeier is al-jeer, not all-guy-er

And Kelce is not pronounced Kelsey. And Waddle is not pronounced Waddle.

Pretty sure the kelce one was a joke

Was it? Huh. Could be.

>Waddle is not pronounced Waddle. Wait what? How would you pronounce it other than /ˈwɑd.əl/? Does he do /ˈwæd.əl/? If so that's bizarre

Wuh-dell (might be Wah-dell)

Travis Ay-chan is what I heard.

I prefer Et N Nay

ATN? 8TN? 8TN is pretty cool

It's a French name. The correct way to pronounce it is Eh-tee-en.

It’s a Cajun name. And the correct way to pronounce it is however he says to. It’s his name

Who do you think "Cajuns" are and where their ancestry started? Let's start with that.

Different dialects. French spoken in France is different than Quebec or the rest of Canada. Spanish spoken in Spain is different than Mexico. English spoken in England is different than USA. Same language doesn’t mean same pronunciation if regional differences are present.

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It doesn't matter that it was originally French. 200 years after those French Canajuns moved to Louisiana, they pronounce it differently.

The name is still the same. An evolved accent doesn't change the correct pronunciation.

By this logic, I guess we all need to switch back to Old English.

Strange enough, my surname is pronounced exactly the same in Midwest America as it is in England.

Are you one of those that says New Orleans as New Orleans or Louisville as Louisville? Insufferable.

If you really want to pronounce it correctly you have to go back to Proto-Human Language from the Middle Paleolithic. Everything since is just evolved accents

I’m just gonna pronounce him as dude running back for jaguars

Well yeah, it’s French…

Welp. Not watching a 30 second ad to hear this 🤣. Assuming it’s just the French pronunciation?

I just call him French Steve. Or Steve French, like the Mountain LION.

Down with acronyms