The most misspelled players of all time

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bobbyDK wrote:
 

the way you can tell that it is Carlson is that he is swedish therefore his family name ends with son. if he had been danish his name would have ended with sen.
nearly all swedish last names ends with son. and nearly all danish last names ends sen.

Wow! Laughing

bobbyDK
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Carlsen is Norwegian.

ups I made an error EmbarassedSven Magnus Øen Carlsen is of course Norwegian

Martin0
bobbyDK wrote:
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the way you can tell that it is Carlson is that he is swedish therefore his family name ends with son. if he had been danish his name would have ended with sen.
nearly all swedish last names ends with son. and nearly all danish last names ends sen.

true, although Carlsen is from Norway. Looking at the top 20 names in Sweden Denmark and Norway the names Karlsson, Carlsson and Karlsen are there, but no Carlsen. Carlsen comes at place 137 (link). It's not that strange people mix up the names and accidentally use those that are more common.

Top 20 last names
  Sweden Denmark Norway
1. Johansson Jensen Hansen
2. Andersson Nielsen Johansen
3. Karlsson Hansen Olsen
4. Nilsson Pedersen Larsen
5. Eriksson Andersen Andersen
6. Larsson Christensen Pedersen
7. Olsson Larsen Nilsen
8. Persson Sørensen Kristiansen
9. Svensson Rasmussen Jensen
10. Gustafsson Jørgensen Karlsen
11. Pettersson Petersen Johnsen
12. Jonsson Madsen Pettersen
13. Jansson Kristensen Eriksen
14. Hansson Olsen Berg
15. Bengtsson Thomsen Haugen
16. Jönsson Christiansen Hagen
17. Carlsson Poulsen Johannessen
18. Petersson Johansen Andreassen
19. Lindberg Knudsen Jacobsen
20. Magnusson Møller Halvorsen

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian_family_name_etymology

RomyGer

@ NM ozzie_c_cobblepot, post nr 63, have a look (again) at the forum " How do you pronounce Alekhine " by Casual_Joe, some months ago, in which you already wrote about the pronunciation of Euwe's name.    This is the nice part of studying languages, pronunciations of the same word are so different in various countries.   Being Dutch, as Euwe, I never heard a foreigner pronounce it as we do in Holland, ( like the town Scheveningen...  Try it ! )

malko

 Being Dutch, as Euwe, I never heard a foreigner pronounce it as we do in Holland, ( like the town Scheveningen...  Try it ! )

I asked once a Dutch guy if I was pronuncing correctly "Scheveningen", and he told me "not bad" .

TetsuoShima
bobbyDK wrote:
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Carlsen is Norwegian.

ups I made an error Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen is of course Norwegian

how do you pronounce that O???

bobbyDK
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bobbyDK wrote:
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Carlsen is Norwegian.

ups I made an error Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen is of course Norwegian

how do you pronounce that O???

pronounce what? the Ø? it is a scandinavian letter that you really cannot pronounce in with english letters.

malko

pronounce what? the Ø? it is a scandinavian letter that you really cannot pronounce in with english letters.

It's like the german ö, right?

bobbyDK
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pronounce what? the Ø? it is a scandinavian letter that you really cannot pronounce in with english letters.

It's like the german ö, right?

yes but how to do you explain that in english?

TetsuoShima

thank you very much

Psalm25

Garry Kasparov (most write Gary)

Judit Polgar (most write Judith)

Nezhmetdinov (self explanatory)

bigpoison
bobbyDK wrote:
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pronounce what? the Ø? it is a scandinavian letter that you really cannot pronounce in with english letters.

It's like the german ö, right?

yes but how to do you explain that in english?

er?

Psalm25

I thought Bent Larsen's first name was a typo the first time I saw it. Same for Paul Morphy's last name

TetsuoShima

lol @ pal benko

AndyClifton

Since it's translated from another alphabet, you guys are kinda babbling. Smile

AndyClifton
Psalm25 wrote:

I thought Bent Larsen's first name was a typo the first time I saw it. Same for Paul Morphy's last name

And how about Pal Benko?

Psalm25

That's another one, yes. Can't remember first time I saw Pal Benko's name but probably figured his first name was a nickname or shortened form of his real first name, like Vishy for Anand

TetsuoShima
AndyClifton wrote:
Psalm25 wrote:

I thought Bent Larsen's first name was a typo the first time I saw it. Same for Paul Morphy's last name

And how about Pal Benko?

funny though... pal ;)

ThrillerFan

One that I don't see misspelled, but rather, mis-pronounced is:

Alekhine

I've heard:  Alakeen, Alakine, Alkaline (yes, I've heard people call him what they call the battery), Aliakin (or Ali Achin'), etc.

It's about as bad as the Cuban Singer.  Gloria what?

Es' te fon
Es' te fin
E stef' on
E stef' in

Note the accent on the first syllable in the first 2, second syllable in the latter 2.

ozzie_c_cobblepot
RomyGer wrote:

@ NM ozzie_c_cobblepot, post nr 63, have a look (again) at the forum " How do you pronounce Alekhine " by Casual_Joe, some months ago, in which you already wrote about the pronunciation of Euwe's name.    This is the nice part of studying languages, pronunciations of the same word are so different in various countries.   Being Dutch, as Euwe, I never heard a foreigner pronounce it as we do in Holland, ( like the town Scheveningen...  Try it ! )

Good times.

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