I don't get how the letters in Coach K's name end up being pronounced Shishefski. Can someone please explain?

Different languages have different spellings for consonents and vowels.

Poland by James Michener has a guide to pronouncing Polish for US English speakers. I realize books are old fashioned these days but your library may have a copy or can find one for you. Also, internet search engines often work really well for stuff like this.

They can't. I know a guy with same name.... He pronounces it much differently. It's a guy I barely know but I'll ask him about it next time I see him.

If TV told the average American dimwit that the sun sets in the east, dammit, the sun would set in the east.

Learn Polish. He is using close to the correct Polish pronunciation. It's only not completely correct because it's being pronounced by non-Polish speakers.

Kosciusko wrote:

Learn Polish. He is using close to the correct Polish pronunciation. It's only not completely correct because it's being pronounced by non-Polish speakers.

Yes this^ including cz pronounced ch, W pronounced as a V and V as a W, etc

Lech Walesa wrote:

Kosciusko wrote:

Learn Polish. He is using close to the correct Polish pronunciation. It's only not completely correct because it's being pronounced by non-Polish speakers.

Yes this^ including cz pronounced ch, W pronounced as a V and V as a W, etc

But it's Krz. How does the r figure into that?

Lech Walesa wrote:

Kosciusko wrote:

Learn Polish. He is using close to the correct Polish pronunciation. It's only not completely correct because it's being pronounced by non-Polish speakers.

Yes this^ including cz pronounced ch, W pronounced as a V and V as a W, etc

And the ze in the second syllable is also pronounced ch? That makes no sense.

No, first syllable = shu second syllable = shey

What about Favre? That has to be a case where some prominent broadcaster just fvcked up his name once and everyone went along with it, right? It can't be pronounced Farve, right?

Sorta like Dwyane Wade. You'd think it was pronounced Dwy-anne or Dwee-anne.

Or maybe Dwee-ain

Don't try and explain the Polish language as an excuse for how Coach K pronounces his name. He's just faking it.

After the ridiculous Grayson Allen suspension, it is pronounced: Douche Bag !

This is incorrect. It's pronounced "cry-Zeus-key."

Dudes from Southern Mississippi. They aren't so bright down there, so his redneck ancestors probably spelled it wrong!