Pronunciation of "Aloysius" (Yapp)
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I think Aloysius says uh-LOY-shus. (Rhymes with bus.) Of course that's not the way a lot of people might say it.
I like saying it in a Latin - a loy si oos. I always see a vague Roman leader calling his general; with a British accent of course...
Biloxi Boy
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a loo wish us (short "a") South Miss/La Creole French
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VTEC John
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If that's how he says it, I stand corrected. It's a fairly common name inUK, where they say it as I described. My mistake, Mr. Yapp.
Yeah, I had a boss whose middle name was AL-oh-WISH-us. He preferred to not be called by his middle name.
I’ve only heard it pronounced “aloe wishes”.
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I think the pro circuit is a close knit group of folks. Yapp has every opportunity to hear how his name is being pronounced if he wants to listen back on a stream and he has more than sufficient access to the commentators to correct them if their pronunciation bothers him. I don’t think this is something to fret over as fans unless we are hearing something blatantly racist occurring. But certainly extra credit to any commentators that proactively work on pronunciations.
Really its pretty simple. If I was an announcer I would ask him how to pronounce his name.
True. And you wouldn’t forget to reach out to all the Asian and Polish players when you get the chance.
Biloxi Boy
Man With A Golden Arm
Or, as they say in New Orleans, "Dey got some shit on dat interweb."
I've been working for a global company for a while now and I've found most of the world has gotten so used to English speakers (especially Americans) butchering pronunciations, that they know it's pretty pointless to make corrections.
On a positive note, Phil Yates made a big deal yesterday about how he is now going to pronounce Gorst properly. He did revert to the old pronunciation a half dozen times after that, but corrected himself each time. People grow. 
i would bet that butchering pronunciations is done equally much in all monolingual countries.. but i agree that it's pointless to correct. pool is a global game and english is its language.
personally i think pool has enriched my language and general knowledge. i played in a mostly migrant pool room for some year and learned to swear in serbian / bosnian
but also some stuff from watching pool. danny d (r.i.p.) was great with the trivia stuff
I believe this is the correct pronounciation-Yeah, I had a boss whose middle name was AL-oh-WISH-us. He preferred to not be called by his middle name.
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That's how I had always heard it pronounced, but it's not how Yapp pronounces it. Listen to how it's pronounced 18 seconds into this hometown interview.
Biloxi Boy
Man With A Golden Arm
Announcer could be wrong -- not the first time. Do we have Yapp himself saying it? Even then, one has license to pronounce his own name. But such is only a singular application.
Yapp is from Singapore. His parents laid an Italian (or European) name on him. And so it began and on it goes.
Yapp is from Singapore. His parents laid an Italian (or European) name on him. And so it began and on it goes.
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VTEC John
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Yeah, I'm skeptical of that voiceover, too. Singapore was a British colony and Aloysius is a particularly British name, but I'll bet it's as unusual in Singapore as it is today in UK.
FWIW, all of the announcers for the finals of the Florida Open that I heard used the same pronunciation for Yapp's first name.