Brett Favre or Brett Farve?

There is a big mystery going on around the country about the famous Viking’s quarterback, Brett Favre. Although the football player’s last name is spelt F – A – V – R – E, the media continues to endlessly pronounce it FAR-ve. So what is right?

According to www.eHow.com, the reason people keep pronouncing Brett’s last name as Farve, is due to a linguistic phenomenon called metathesis. Metathesis occurs when two neighboring sounds in a word switch places. This speech error occurs in many words in English as well as other languages too.

 
So are all the news media and fans wrong? Well…I guess so. Although you are free to think and pronounce Favre however you please, this would be a great way to win a bet or to prove a long drawn out point. What do you think?