PROJECT N00b;1497985 said:
It's spelled Favre. I have no fucking clue as to why they pronounce it Farve...
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Understand that when people pronounce Favre as "Far -Ve," it is a linguistic phenomenon called "metathesis." Metathesis occurs when two neighboring sounds in a word switch places.
Metathesis occurs with many words in English and other languages.
Some examples in English include "comfortable" pronounced as "comfterble," "spaghetti" pronounced as "pasghetti," and "asterisk" pronounced as "asteriks."
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Metathesis is a controversial linguistic phenomenon. Some linguists believe metathesis is primarily the result of speech errors and childrens' talk, and is not a regular process. Other linguists believe metathesis can be a regularly occurring process of phonology that affects only a small number of words or forms in a particular language.
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If the phenomenon of metathesis is removed from the phonological equation, the name Favre should be pronounced "Fav-Re."