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Gridiron Ernie wrote: ↑

Sat Jun 24, 2017 11:49 am

Lol. Thanks for the entertaining good-natured tone of that communique QB Club 63. Too funny. My heritage happens to be Dutch, so while I know that it's Vandervoort (not Vandervoot -- although that variant spelling is a hoot, and I smile widely every time I see it here) -- I admit I'm pretty much at the mercy of others who know far better than I about French-language pronunciations. But, yeah, it makes no sense that the media guys apparently have it backwards. Tsk, tsk. The way I've helped myself toward remembering the supposed correct way is I've programmed my brain to think of Foo Fighters -- that way once I get past the "Foo", the "coh" pretty much automatically follows. btw-- Vandervoort literally means "from the ford" (ford, as in river crossing.) Whereas "voot" according to the vaunted Urban Dictionary is an exclamation of joy -- so, Blitz, I think you might have something there! Every time our young Danny-boy hauls in a spine-tingler I'll shout out "Voot!". And any time our young David flattens an opponent I'll yell "Foo!" And when he misses a block I'll yell something a bit similar but, well, altogether different! lol.