Monday, September 19, 2005
Casting a Spell
Sometimes it really makes me scream when I see bad spelling, especially the incorrect spelling of Charlton players names on Charlton blogs/websites. Now I know, before everyone jumps down my throat, that I am not perfect and Pedro45 regularly gets them wrong too; Even after a year I have yet to perfect the spelling of Dennis's surname on a regular basis, and as for Hermann, well, nobody really goes for that too often do they?!?
So let's set the record straight and run through some of our foreign players who prove troublesome on the keyboard showing the correct spelling of their names:
Hermann Hreidersson - not Herman, and not Hriederson or any other variation!
Jonatan Johansson - JJ has two S's!
Shaun Bartlett - Shaun not Sean, and three T's in Bartlett!
Dennis Rommedahl - Two N's in Dennis and one R in Rommedahl!
Stephan Andersen - Not Steven, or Stephen, and Sen not Son!
Rurik Gislason - new boy hasn't made many headlines yet, but it's one we may need in future!
Talal El Karkouri - Nicknames of Elk and El Kak are OK, but two R's in Karkouri! And it's Talal not Tahar (so the bloke well behind me can stop the Alan Partridge impression OK, please?!?)!
Radostin Kishishev - Some of you may not like him but it's Shev, not Chev!
Alexei Smertin - Even our Russian has got fed up with people getting his name wrong apparently, so any forename of Alexey, Alexei, just plain Alex or Smert's is fine!
I think most of the others take care of themselves - it's tough to get Mark Fish wrong!
(PS Did anyone else see Feeeesh on Sky yesterday morning talking about the previous days Premiership matches; he'd had a bet with a friend to name as many U2 song titles as he could during the hour chatting in front of the camera and got up to around 7 or 8. He finished by saying it was "a beautiful day" to be on Sky....ahhhh! Makes you wonder how many other footballers are brainy enough to do that...)
So let's set the record straight and run through some of our foreign players who prove troublesome on the keyboard showing the correct spelling of their names:
Hermann Hreidersson - not Herman, and not Hriederson or any other variation!
Jonatan Johansson - JJ has two S's!
Shaun Bartlett - Shaun not Sean, and three T's in Bartlett!
Dennis Rommedahl - Two N's in Dennis and one R in Rommedahl!
Stephan Andersen - Not Steven, or Stephen, and Sen not Son!
Rurik Gislason - new boy hasn't made many headlines yet, but it's one we may need in future!
Talal El Karkouri - Nicknames of Elk and El Kak are OK, but two R's in Karkouri! And it's Talal not Tahar (so the bloke well behind me can stop the Alan Partridge impression OK, please?!?)!
Radostin Kishishev - Some of you may not like him but it's Shev, not Chev!
Alexei Smertin - Even our Russian has got fed up with people getting his name wrong apparently, so any forename of Alexey, Alexei, just plain Alex or Smert's is fine!
I think most of the others take care of themselves - it's tough to get Mark Fish wrong!
(PS Did anyone else see Feeeesh on Sky yesterday morning talking about the previous days Premiership matches; he'd had a bet with a friend to name as many U2 song titles as he could during the hour chatting in front of the camera and got up to around 7 or 8. He finished by saying it was "a beautiful day" to be on Sky....ahhhh! Makes you wonder how many other footballers are brainy enough to do that...)
