Can someone tell me how to phonetically pronounce Veilleux's name?

[jivecat]

I know I am butchering it and people think I am talking about a third line goon from the 1978 Montreal Canadians team and not the PITT starting QB.

 

[MarshallGoldberg]

He says it at the end
vay air (but with that slight French inflection that's hard to type out)

 

[HailToPitt1985]

I think of it as rhyming with Bayer, the company that used to be in Pittsburgh and the aspirin company.

 

[NC2017]

I know I am butchering it and people think I am talking about a third line goon from the 1978 Montreal Canadians team and not the PITT starting QB.

Christian Mxyzptlk

 

[upj87]

I know I am butchering it and people think I am talking about a third line goon from the 1978 Montreal Canadians team and not the PITT starting QB.

not^jer^coe^veh^ck

 

[Upg bobcat]

Can he just change it to Lemieux?

 

[HailtoPitt]

Can he just change it to Lemieux?

Yes, but with a V.

 

[pittdan77]

Remember when Yinzer's couldn't pronounce Lemieux?

 

[TempleBAPittMPA]

Remember when Yinzer's couldn't pronounce Lemieux?

Still can't.

 

[moose121]

I know I am butchering it and people think I am talking about a third line goon from the 1978 Montreal Canadians team and not the PITT starting QB.

Think of the word conveyor. "veyor".

 

[upj87]

Think of the word conveyor. "veyor".

or better yet...change the M to a V in Goldie Wilson's impassioned vison of the future....Vaaaayor

 

[Zeldas Open Roof]

Remember when Yinzer's couldn't pronounce Lemieux?

no

 

[Zeldas Open Roof]

he's "the psu kid" until i am confident he is a legit P5 qb. then and only then, i'll worry about if i want to sound out an R in his name.

 

[H2Ppanthers]

I think of it as rhyming with Bayer, the company that used to be in Pittsburgh and the aspirin company.

I thought the same. “Va-er” pronunciation makes it sound German.

 

[Joe Magarac]

Veilleux for Meilleux

 

[TempleBAPittMPA]

Think of the word conveyor. "veyor".

Correct, except you cut it off before fully enunciating the "r" sound.

 

[chirurgo]

Seems to me that his Dad knows how to pronounce the name but he doesn’t. It means Night Light. Why don’t we just call him Christian Nightlight.

 

[Gunga_Galunga]

It's vey-youuu in French. No French person would pronounce it vay-air.

He wants to be different which is fine, but it's not some secret European French pronunciation.

 

[TheSeldomSeenKid]

And here I was apparently wrong when pronouncing his name as ‘Jurkovec’ the first part of the Season 🫤.

I just hope to pronounce his name as ‘ACC Champion Quarterback’ eventually.

 

[jivecat]

I find it funny that French people cannot understand French Canadians when they speak. French people effectively call them hilljacks when they speak.

 

[MarshallGoldberg]

It's vey-youuu in French. No French person would pronounce it vay-air.

He wants to be different which is fine, but it's not some secret European French pronunciation.

But he's not French, he's Quebecois! He said both his parents spoke French in the home so they probably told him to say it in that weird ass way. Thankfully I don't think it's a problem in the huddle.

 

[TempleBAPittMPA]

I find it funny that French people cannot understand French Canadians when they speak. French people effectively call them hilljacks when they speak.

I've forgotten most of the French I ever learned. The problem for me was that actual French speakers spoke at a rapid-fire pace, faster than I could think in French or English.