Originally Posted by
oldbikenewbike
It's like Brett Favre. He pronounces it "FARVE".....but it should be pronounced as it's spelled, "FAV-RAY". Maybe his family never got past 3rd grade English classes. But more than likely it sounded to whoosie for a football player to pronounce it as it's spelled.
No. There's no accent over the 'e'. It's probably a cajun name and, thus, originally pronounced something like "favruh". The American tongue doesn't get around that too easily so it has morphed to "farve".
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