Shannon Rowbury on McColgan

When she gets a world medal like Kara has then maybe Kara will care about British inflections.

Why would it matter if Shannon knows her name or not?

I see the Scottish record, never mind the British record, is faster than the American record in this event. As is the womens' 1500m record, held by a completely different athlete, despite your record holder not much later being banned for drugs. Mind you, life expectancy in supposedly declining Britain is still 3 years longer than in the US.

Its not an "inflection". Its simply pronunciation, in this case very simple pronunciation following the common way the letters are pronounced in that order. An inflection actually
involves a change in the form of a word (typically the ending) to express a grammatical function or attribute such as tense, mood, person, number, case, and gender.

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

Supposedly? Definitely declining lol, your companies are abandoning you in droves. Brexit was the single dumbest vote of the 21st century, let's tank our economy because we don't like immigrants. Life expectancy is an empty flex on LRC, that's just obesity rates, not relevant for runners

wsj.com

New York Pushes London Aside in Battle of Financial Centers

Ben Dummett, Alexander Osipovich and Josh Mitchell

British chip designer Arm spurns the U.K., attracted by the scale and robust liquidity of U.S. markets.

Link:www.wsj.com/articles/chip-designer-arm...

She is dumb. Many people are.

But Britain is still a first world country. We don't have people starving to death, dying on the streets, living in tin huts, unable to afford healthcare, etc.. Thats why your average life expectancy is under 80 years. Thats probably why your vast population cannot produce athletes to equal those of a country with a much smaller population - think of how many potential athletes are simply not able to get the opportunity because they don't fit into the really quite rigid collegiate system you have for young athletes. Look at how an athlete who does make it through the difficulties your country has struggles to cope with it despite great talent - Sha'Carri Richardson. Its not just Scotland or Britain, compare Norway too.

UK per capita income is like Mississippi/Alabama. Very poor country.

Fair enough, but I can't count the number of times Ato Boldon and numerous British speaking commentators would mispronounce Evan Jagers last name. The "J" is pronounced as a "Y".

No one whom I ever read a post of theirs on this site ever got their panties in a bunch about that, but then suddenly now we expect every commentator to be able to pronounce every athletes Sir name as if were as simple as Smith or Jones?

I'll give Ato a pass, but these British guys should know better. Or perhaps they mispronounce Evans Sir name on purpose out of spite?

Also, and as an aside, I watch post race interviews from marathons. If, and I bear no grudges, a runner who needs an English speaker to translate for them, then they should not be offended if English speakers don't know how to pronounce their Sir names.

That's all I have to say about that. Now you can bring out the torches, pitch forks, scythes and the boiling oil to tar and feather me with if you feel so inclined.

Very droll Sir Jack...

Kara got the medal in a weak field.

What was her time and place a year later in Beijing? Of course I'm correct.

Use logic and common sense as far as why Kara got a medal in 2007

Maybe you should get ahold of Evan to tell him that he’s been saying his own name incorrectly all these years?

I'm a German. My sir name is Weber. In the west the "W" is pronounced as "W". In Deutschland in our alphabet the letter "W" is pronounced as "ve".

For Evan Jagers last name, below is a translator for pronouncing his name. Scroll down until you get to the German translation.

Yes, we can all Americanize our sir names if we choose. But our names didn't come out of thin air. And the original pronunciation of sir names is important too many people other than melting pot americans.

But is Shannon still wearing the clown makeup to honor her grandmother ?

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.

Congratulations, German boy. You’re going to get red in the face if you come to The Stares and are upset that no one calls you Mr. Vebber. Sounds like Jager chooses to use a hard J. Why is that any of your business?

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.

Sorry Hard J. I was bored this morning and went fishing for suckers. You do know suckers make good bait for bass?

Anyhow, yes my name is Weber. Family has been here since the mid 1840's, 1/4 German. I'm also 3/4 French. Those people emigrated from France in 1650. Now you might believe this or not but in 1650 there were no nations/countries in North America only territories and the new arrivals didn't care if their names were changed a bit in order to make the melting pot a little more assimilated.

Now maybe your people had to come through Ellis Island, or were boat people sailing away from Cuba in rubber rafts, or maybe got clay stuck to the bottoms of their boots crossing the Rio Grande River.

But please, you judgmental human, I'm just American as you, maybe more. And don't you every call be a German boy again, or I'll have to put on my Schutzstaffel boots and show you what they were made for.

I like grammar nazis, so you’re wrong. This correction of surname vs. “sir name” isn’t grammatical anyway, it’s more like vocabulary. I’m not sure what you’re saying with the useless gift analogy; you just received free knowledge that can help you avoid making that same embarrassing mistake in the future.