It really is pronounced "Col bert"
he's such a silly little man.
shareHe doesn’t have a French molecule in his body. He admittedly is 94% Irish and 3% each English and German. So he fabricated the pronunciation.
shareA lot of Irish names are French though. (Norman to be exact)
Fitzgerald
Fitzwilliam etc
Reynolds
Talbot/Talbert
Roche
Redmond
... and so on.
OK, maybe a couple three molecules. The “coal-bear” pronunciation of his name is a fabrication.
His choice, so that’s acceptable.
I just don’t like his act though. Johnny Carson said it best on *discussing* politics on late night comedy shows:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=cob5t_0G_8I&feature=shares
For generations, millions of immigrants to the US and their descendants have changed the spelling and pronunciation of their names of European and non English origin. Some of them claiming that their names are actually "American'.
shareMy grandfather emigrated from Greece in 1912 with a decidedly Greek surname, but he and his brothers shortened it and changed the first letter from a K to a C and everyone figures I’m Irish.
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