Then there's mispronunciation of names. Back in the famous Canada-Russia hockey series in 1972, the Russians had a star forward named Valeri Karlamov (I hope I spelled it right...well, Russian employs a somewhat different alphabet anyway...maybe should be an "h" in there somewhere).

Most of the Canadian announcers couldn't handle "Karlamov" for some reason and insisted on reversing the letters and pronouncing at "Karmaloff", like "marmalade". Gad! What idiots they made of themselves. Despite the almost universal mispronunciation of the man's name, he earned the grudging respect and outright admiration of the frustrated Canadians, as he had an uncanny ability to both skate and put the puck in the net. So uncanny, that I believe the Canucks arranged to injure him and get him off the ice. Dirty pool! Not that the Russians didn't do some dirty play themselves...quite a bit of it.

Now why has G.W.B. not shown up on this thread? Oh yeah, there's a war on...

- LH