I usually try not to add to the annoying pedantry on these boards, but if you're going to be partaking, you should know that the word you're looking for is surnames, not sir names.
Thank you for pointing out my mistake.
P.S. No one likes a grammar nazi. I follow these threads very, very often and never feel inclined to correct others for their grammar. For me it's kinda sorta like getting a gift you can't use. You keep your mouth shut about it while keeping in mind that it was the thought that counts more than how use full/useless said gift was.
In other words saying, said poster might have used bad grammar, but not so bad as you couldn't understand their point. This is the point where grammar nazis become so insufferable.
If you can't be bothered to write it properly, I can't be bothered to read it properly.
P.S. No one likes a grammar nazi. I follow these threads very, very often and never feel inclined to correct others for their grammar. For me it's kinda sorta like getting a gift you can't use. You keep your mouth shut about it while keeping in mind that it was the thought that counts more than how use full/useless said gift was.
In other words saying, said poster might have used bad grammar, but not so bad as you couldn't understand their point. This is the point where grammar nazis become so insufferable.
If you can't be bothered to write it properly, I can't be bothered to read it properly.
Being a Grammar Natzi of a living language is no better way to show you don't actually understand basic linguistics ... living language grammar and spelling changes constantly especially with english... People should feel free to correct our latin/Aramaic or Sanskrit grammar...
Watching The Ten, and Rowbury keeps calling Eilish McColgan “McCog-lan.” The name McColgan has been famous in world distance running for two generations now. Eilish is an established star. How does Shannon not know what her name is?
I recall others mispronouncing "Ingebrigtsen" and more recently "Grijalva."
I was at the event and the in-stadium announcer pronounced McColgan and Gijalva's names wrong the whole night and it was difficult to listen to. It would suck to be racing for 30 minutes listening to someone constantly pronounce your name wrong. These two names are not particularly difficult to pronounce and they are two pretty big names in the sport at this point. He got Grijalva's name wrong last year in the same way. At least this year he pronounced Hoare's name correctly.
When you combine that with the fact that the biggest (non-championship) 10k in the US was held 50 miles outside a major city at a tiny high school, it's not hard to figure out why this sport is dying. The people presenting the sport can't be bothered to learn the names of the athletes and the people putting on events can't be bothered to host them in places that anyone can get to. It's really embarrassing and it all shows a collective lack of professionalism and forethought.
Hate to break it to you OP, but most people are borderline illiterate, and even if you correct them, their brains are so smooth that the groove that was worn in the first time they read and mispronounced the name simply cannot be overwritten.
I have an obscure last name that I won't put on here, but suffice it to say it is six letters long and has a shortage of vowels. My sophomore year of high school, my own coach (who was also my PE teacher one semester that year and a great teacher/coach despite his spelling/grammar shortcomings) entered me in a meet with only 3/6 letters correct. Really, quite impressive. By the time that meet came around my last name had crossed this dude's eyes easily hundreds of times. Didn't matter lol. He also never learned to pronounce it right.
Why would it matter if Shannon knows her name or not?
Because she was a commentator on the pay-per-view broadcast! It would be like turning on an NBA game and hearing an announcer talk about “LerBon” James
Oh, I see - totally agree, she should have practised it then.
