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Obviously I have seen this guy's name loads of times but have always wondered how it is pronounced.

It reads (Loo-ee) but I have also heard it pronounced (by the Weakest Link presenter :) ) as Lewis.

Can anyone help me out here ?

i've always pronounced it joe lewis.

Matchfixer wrote:Obviously I have seen this guy's name loads of times but have always wondered how it is pronounced.

It reads (Loo-ee) but I have also heard it pronounced (by the Weakest Link presenter :) ) as Lewis.

Can anyone help me out here ?

as someone who used to live in the town wher the arena bears his name...it is pronounced like lewis...whoever said 'loo-ee' must be french!!!

louis was actually his middle name...joseph louis barrow.

Thank you!

Loo-is.

shoutout2u wrote:

Matchfixer wrote:Obviously I have seen this guy's name loads of times but have always wondered how it is pronounced.

It reads (Loo-ee) but I have also heard it pronounced (by the Weakest Link presenter :) ) as Lewis.

Can anyone help me out here ?

as someone who used to live in the town wher the arena bears his name...it is pronounced like lewis...whoever said 'loo-ee' must be french!!!

louis was actually his middle name...joseph louis barrow.

And he was named after his dads brother in law, Joe Louis Nichols.

There you go.

I've found American's have a tendency to pronounce French words their own way. I remember hearing Georges Carpentier's manager (Francois Deschamps) pronunced as "dez-chah-mps", when of course it's really "day-shau".

Er, I think.

Manos de Oro wrote:I've found American's have a tendency to pronounce French words their own way. I remember hearing Georges Carpentier's manager (Francois Deschamps) pronunced as "dez-chah-mps", when of course it's really "day-shau".

Er, I think.

of course, the most famous one well-known university notre dame, which we pronounce NO-TUR DAIM...instead of NO-TRA DAHM...not about to follow the french lead in ANYTHING!!!