Yeah, I know I need to get a life...
2006-07-04 12:46:16 · 4 answers · asked by vandelayindustriesherlihygirl 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
It's called metathesis. vr is an unacceptable consonant cluster to end a word in English, so the two consonants switched places in pronounciation to get the acceptable cluster rv, as in "carve".
This is actually quite a common process in English, so that "comfortable" is pronounced "kumf-tur-bul", and "ask" is often pronounced "aks" (and has been for over a thousand years). It gave us the two words "task" and "tax" from old tascian, and Proto-Germanic *brin and *gars became English "burn" and "grass". My daughters still pronounce "birthday" as "brithday" and spell it that way, too.
2006-07-04 13:23:04 · answer #1 · answered by Taivo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because people in the Midwest are too lazy and ill-educated to learn how to say it correctly. (I should know, I was born and raised in Indiana!) Also, it is only polite to pronounce it the way the "owner" of the name pronounces it, so... lazy and ill-educated it is! :) lol, just kidding
2006-07-04 22:17:29 · answer #2 · answered by la_bavarde 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because everyone mispronounes it. It looks french, which would make the correct pronunciation favr
2006-07-04 19:52:01 · answer #3 · answered by snvffy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
from what country his family came from, it's based on how they pronounce it
2006-07-04 19:49:43 · answer #4 · answered by lulucakes32 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋