"No one in either city can properly pronounce Mathias Kiwanuka." --Mike Adkins, MPC Computers Bowl chief

I guess I'm an insensitive prick, but I don't see it. My last name is a bit tricky to pronounce, and I'd laugh my ass off if someone said that to me. But apparently Kiwi was offended--even though he has no problem with the nickname Kiwi.

And it has set off a hellstorm both here and in Boston:

http://www.idahostatesman.com/apps/pbcs ... 052/NEWS05

What say you?

Mispronouncing a last name is a sickening offense. I think this guy should be eaten by Idi Amin, just like Kiwi's granddad was.

For shizzle.

Good god, get over yourself. Your name is hard to pronounce, big fucking deal. Quit acting like you were crucified. Fuck. I have to spell my name out every single fucking time someone needs it for something, and THEN explain why it's spelled the way it is. Christ. GET OVER YOURSELF.

people still dont know how to spell douchebag?


youd be amazed how many times i have to spell my last name out, like theres a fucking q, w or a z thrown in for trickery

I used your name for a review I wrote and my boss made me change it to "Ramsey."

How hard is it to pronounce Kiwinuka?, I'd laugh that the retard in Idaho managed to have a successful enough business to put on a bowl game in on the most hideous field in the history of football yet can't pronounce the fairly phonetic and obvious Kiwinuka. It's not a matter of having a sense of humor, 10 million comedians out of work and this idiot is calling out the best player on the oposing team It wasn't remotely funny. Obviously this bowl game was created so that the Idaho people could actually go to a bowl but wow, crickets. It's not a big deal at all but a really really poor attempt at humor. It would have been funnier to make a joke about the hideous field. Maybe Kiwinuka is just getting bored with lame jokes and cheap shots.


Why are we suprised, Michael Vick is offended people would actually critique his passing prowess?

Oh get over it! I've known people for decades that still can't pronounce my last name -- and it's not even hard to say!
Neugebauer (pronounced: New-Bower). That "ge" in the middle trips everyone up. Especially if they have to write it. There's ALWAYS extra letters getting added - especially H's. I had to re-lable my mailbox at my old job like 8 times.

That's why if I ever get famous, I'm just going to be Jennifer Mae.

I'm changing my name to Favre.

Mispronouncing someones name is a fucking stupid thing to get upset over. But is that all that happened? Where is the actual story posted? One of the letters to the paper or whatever on that link says the guy deliberately mispronounced the name then made fun of it. That is not ok, if it is indeed what happened.

Um... everyone in this school calls him Kiwi. It's not hard to pronounce, really, but everyone calls him that anyways. I would think that, if he cared, we wouldn't call him that... all the time. So that's a pretty easy solution to a hard to pronounce name.

Then again, I missed the entire thing because I'm a shitty BC fan and wasn't around to watch the game. Hah, oops?
Hell, at least there's no obvious insults that can be drawn from his name... like some peoples... (COUGH me cough)

Don't you mean more famous?

i suppose it's a bit upsetting when someone mispronounces your name. at my last college graduation, the guy mispronounced all three of my names. it made me sad. it made me wonder if he was a bit of a moron (who pronounces "leigh" as "league" anyway?), but it didn't offend me.

sounds to me like BC's pissed that the banquet turned into a pep-rally for the other team and this is the most "offensive" thing they can pull from it. give me a break. it's a joke, albiet not a funny one. the only reason this is even getting attention is because of who kiwinuka's grandfather was.

here's an article about it if anyone actually wants to read it: http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/ ... logy_x.htm

I don't see the big deal, I've been pronouncing it correctly for the past 9 weeks; take an hour out of your "busy" day, fucking pathetic. I mean this guy is the teams’ best player, he could have left last year, this player came back for his senior year and this is a guy that overcame one of the worst late hits I have ever seen, pronounce is damn name....it’s the least you could do for the young man.

People mispronounce my last name, and honestly, if you can't pronounce "Doll", you're fucking hurting, but I don't care when they do it.

I am however envious of this Kiwi guy. If my biggest reason to get upset was someone saying my name wrong, I'd be living a pretty damned charmed life now, wouldn't I?

How hard is it to pronounce:

Kerley


Any trick letters in there? Any hidden syllables? Nope. Pretty straight forward. It's pronounced the same way the fries are and yet, every fucking time someone sees it, it's like they can't imagine how the "er" in the middle of my last name can sound like the er at the end of "integer," or "ranger."

And I have to spell it every time I say it to someone who doesn't know me. Hell, most of the people that know me can't spell it correctly. I see a person's last name once, and know how to pronounce it, it's pretty easy to spell it right every time.

I wish my last night was "Smith" or something equally trite so that I didn't have to play 20 fucking questions every time I give my name to someone. Christ.

I'm so angry I'm going to get wasted. Excuse me.

Just think how Richard Fuchs feels.