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The Spectacle Blog
“So I’m getting a lot of mail that I endorsed Adam . . .” Glenn Beck said this morning, before fumbling the name of the Tea Party-backed Republican gubernatorial candidate in Illinois. (It’s pronounced “an-gee-EFF-ski.”)
Beck denied yesterday's report that, in playing a recording of Lech Walesa's endorsement of Andrzejewski, he had intended to endorse a candidate in today's seven-way GOP primary.
“I don’t endorse candidates and I don’t know this guy, but I wish him all the best,” Beck said.
However, as the Illinois Review blog reports, popular Chicago-based radio host Erich “Mancow” Mueller did say this morning that he voted for Andrzejewski.
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MikeBee| 2.2.10 @ 5:35PM
My wife is Polish. Can we get the pronunciation of his name right? (It's understandable that we Americans have a tough time with Polish and other Eastern European names.) It's pronounced: On-der-Je(soft "J")-YEV-ski. Most U.S. Poles will allow for a shortened, quadrisyllabic version: On-der-JEV(again, soft "J)-ski. To be clear, a soft "J" is a cross between the "sh" sound and the usual "J" sound.
Pingback| 2.2.10 @ 6:54PM
Illinois Update: Andrzejewski Get-Out-the Vote Effort ‘On Fire’ : The Other McCain links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Kenny from Riverside| 2.2.10 @ 8:59PM
Mr. McCain is in the right here. In his ads, Adam Andrzejewski is pronouncing his name just like the phonetic spelling provided. I voted for him, though sadly Illinois is not doing what Massachusetts did last month.
Jim Hlavac| 2.2.10 @ 10:02PM
With a name like mine, I'm a forced participant in the "how do you pronounce that" game. It's fun to play. There's no way any American is going to wrap their mouths around "drz" -- which is sort of like "drrrrrzh" -- a D-rolled into an R and then glided into the S in measure. It's a losing battle. Even the relatively simple HL, which is not different in style than bl, sl, pl, fl, etc, is unfathomable to Americans. Just say it the way he says it, or close enough, if you can, or take your own best shot at it, or better, just call him Mr. A, like we did with all the East Europe teacher names when I was in junior high.
But just think how tough it is for the rest of the world to deal with TH -- that virtually unique to English sound that we do as effortlessly as Poles in Warsaw do "drz".
Let's just hope the guy wins.