Green Bay's quarterback - Bret Favre. Every sportscaster pronounces it 'Farve'. I've never heard him pronounce it himself, so I don't know if they're correct or not, but I have a feelilng that our Quebec friends might have a thing or two to say about that.

>>Yeah, you#re right, typo, whatever! The main point is that we have a "ker" sound when the vowel is an "o". OK, so it is in "worst" (except worsted cloth is pronounced "woosted", I think!, and Worcester is "wooster") but there's an "l" instead of an "r"
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>Around here I've heard Fredericksburg pronounced as Fredgburg, Staunton as Stanton... but what really puzzled me is that "coxswain" should be pronounced "coxn".
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>>>>There is a stately home called "Beaulieu" -"bo-lyuh" you'd think? - no, "byew-lee". Go figure.
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>How about bulletin? It's pronounced close to "bilten" (at least to my Slavic ears - anyway, that's the way it's spelled and pronounced in my language), but here, it's "bull-let-in".
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>And during the most of the last month, my seasonal gripe was the superhero, who is stronger than all four crews of CSI, all three crews of Law'n'Order (aka Lorder), and Starfleet and SG-1 combined: Seezen Fennelly. I have only once heard a TV voice pronounce "Finnahly", and never, for all these six years here, have I heard anything even close to "finale" (finn-uh-leh).
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>Does anyone know whether this "read it as if it were English as you know it" logic ever applied to "grand prix"?
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>>Ah the old "ghoti" example. I've discussed that one with Dragan.
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>And it was invented by Mark Twain.