[Albion] Pronouncing Locadia

[Lady Whistledown]

I had assumed loh-KAR-dee-ah, but the commentators on Super Sport have gone with lokka-DEE-ah.

Gabby Logan also went with that on MOTD. I mocked her. It seems I was being deeply unfair. Sorry Gabby!

 

[Gwylan]

Stadium Announcer agrees with you as well.

That's no recommendation - he couldn't pronounce Uwe for a whole season. Has he got it right yet?

 

[trueblue]

I had assumed loh-KAR-dee-ah, but the commentators on Super Sport have gone with lokka-DEE-ah.

I think you assumed correctly. Forvo is good sometimes but I’d say that one Dutch speaker is outweighed by several Dutch YouTube videos - including one where he’s there as they say his name - that all call him Lo-CARD-deeah.

 

[Aveacarlin']

https://forvo.com/word/jürgen_locadia/



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[Dick Head]

https://forvo.com/word/j%C3%BCrgen_locadia/

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

That's no recommendation - he couldn't pronounce Uwe for a whole season. Has he got it right yet?

He still can't get Schelotto's name right either - always calls him ES-schelotto.

 

[HastingsSeagull]

Dutch friends both independantly say loh-KAR-dee-ah so yes you are correct. Don't expect many commentators to bother doing their jobs and researching the main story they focus on during a match though. The ones who DO, might actually research other things too and be the ones who's opinions are worth noting.

 

[nigeyb]

Bloke next to me on Saturday kept calling him Lo-car-doe

I do him his real surname (correctly pronounced too) and he looked at me like I was mad

 

[Billy the Fish]

I thought the stress was always on the penultimate syllable, unless one of the letters has an accent in which case that becomes stressed.

 

[el punal]

That clown who used to manage Luton (when he wasn't curb crawling') pronounced Coventry 'Cardiff' when discussing the game. As a matter of interest, he regularly pronounces a certain player's name as 'Shimbombo'. Can you name that player? #prayforpleat

Remember the old joke? - How can you tell if a woman's a prostitute? She always has a pleat up her skirt. Boom - bloody - boom!

 

[el punal]

You're correct, according to this native speaker:

https://forvo.com/word/jürgen_locadia/

As in Arshenal and Schteve.

 

[Spanish Seagulls]

Hurdy Gurdy Jurdy.

 

[trueblue]

Dutch friends both independantly say loh-KAR-dee-ah so yes you are correct. Don't expect many commentators to bother doing their jobs and researching the main story they focus on during a match though. The ones who DO, might actually research other things too and be the ones who's opinions are worth noting.

Most commentators work hard on getting pronunciations correct. Which is probably why Jonathan Pearce called him Lo-CARD-ia, unlike Gabby Logan.

 

[BNthree]

It's a Spanish looking name which is why presenters are pronouncing it lokka-DEE-ah as Spanish don't pronounce A as AR. If it a Dutch pronunciation then it will be loh-KAR-dee-ah

 

[Albion my Albion]

You're correct, according to this native speaker:

https://forvo.com/word/jürgen_locadia/

Has anyone told Johnny Cantor?

 

[Albion my Albion]

Got to be J Lo ! Love it

"Yur" Lo or Card-ee-UH

 

[Triggaaar]

Has anyone told Johnny Cantor?

You tell him

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

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