It must be terribly irritating for foreign players to arrive in England and have the media, fans and even your own teammates butcher your name.
Liverpool supporters, listen up. The man-hours have been put in and we now know how to pronounce the name of your beloved Emre Can.
Let all the bickering over whether it’s Em-ray Kan or Um-reh Chan be put to an end because it’s bloody neither.
Turkish-football have kindly enlightened us buffoons as to how to vocalise his name.
The author of the piece, who is a namesake of the Reds’ versatility player, explains it thusly.
“Emre is a popular Turkish name which means close friend or older brother. Being an Emre myself, I have heard everything from Emray to Henry – even Xray – but the name is actually pronounced, Eh m r eh.”
And as for that tricky surname.
“The Turkish C is pronounced sort of like the J in Jelly. When is comes to Can, think of the Jun sound in Junk and there you have it, Eh-m-r-eh Jun.”
So it is, next week we tackle the baffling Gylfi Sigurðsson.
H/t to TelegraphSport
