06/04/2021
For an athlete, having their name pronounced incorrectly on either an in-arena feed (where they can hear it live) or on a broadcast feed (where they find out about it later) can be quite a blow. It’s maybe particularly notable in the professional ranks, where athletes have worked long and hard to get there, only to have their names still not recognized properly. Many leagues have tried to prevent this with the issuing of pronunciation guides to announcers, but that doesn’t always work perfectly. And there seems to be a particular issue with that at the moment in the WNBA, as Britni de la Cretaz relays in a piece for Vice: