Can someone please explain how you get...

[BlancoNino]

Shuh-shef-ski

out of

Krzyzewski

It should be more like Kriz-yuh-zoo-ski

Man..that ranks up their with Favre (who's ancestors must have been dislexic when they picked their last name).

 

[Ika]

Maybe it's not an english name.

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

Originally posted by: BlancoNino
Shuh-shef-ski

out of

Krzyzewski

It should be more like Kriz-yuh-zoo-ski

Man..that ranks up their with Favre (who's ancestors must have been dislexic when they picked their last name).

It's actually pronounced SHI-SHEV-SKI

When you look at polish/slavic names you have to remember that the letters in their alphabet have distintly different pronounciation. Zs have a SH sound. Ws have a soft V sound (almost an F sound).

So K(silent) r(not sure) zy(SHI) zew(SHEV/F) ski(SKI)

<--- Worked with a polish guy for the last 9 years.

 

[spaceman]

theres alot of people of polish descent around here(have a little polish blood myself) and some of thier last names are doozy's like that.