# How do you pronounce Reuss? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 17, 2011, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-reuss/589343 "2011-07-17T11:32:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CheeseDonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecae2f/32.png) [@CheeseDonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheeseDonkey)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-reuss/589343/1 "2011-07-17T11:32:38Z")
As in baseball pitcher Jerry Reuss. I always thought it was pronounced like Roose. Is this accurate? ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-reuss/589343/2 "2011-07-17T11:59:57Z")
I’d always heard it pronounced like “royce.” ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-reuss/589343/3 "2011-07-17T14:47:16Z")
It was always “Royce” when he was playing. Names are pronounced the way the person with the name pronounces it (generally\*). Thus you can pronounce “Luxury Yacht” as “Throatwarbler Mangrove.” \*Reporters were told that NY Rangers center Walt Tkaczuk was pronounced “TAY-chuck” in the early years of his career. Later, he told them it really was pronounced “ka-CHOOK,” so everyone changed. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-reuss/589343/4 "2011-07-17T14:55:15Z")
Never heard of the guy, but just looking at the name I’d say ‘Royce’. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-reuss/589343/5 "2011-07-17T15:19:49Z")
If you pronounce it the German way, that’s right. Of course no-one ever pronounces Dr Seuss’s name that way. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-reuss/589343/6 "2011-07-17T15:43:38Z")
Why would anyone pronounce Dr Seuss as “Royce?” ---
**Author:** ![CheeseDonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecae2f/32.png) [@CheeseDonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheeseDonkey)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-reuss/589343/7 "2011-07-17T17:28:31Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > \*Reporters were told that NY Rangers center Walt Tkaczuk was pronounced “TAY-chuck” in the early years of his career. Later, he told them it really was pronounced “ka-CHOOK,” so everyone changed. I remember something like that when baseball infielder Marco Scutaro was with the New York Mets. The announcers initially pronounced it Scuh-TAR-o, but he said it was actually pronounced like scooter-o. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-reuss/589343/8 "2011-07-17T20:19:34Z")
I was following baseball, as a teenager, when Jerry Reuss was playing. Every time I heard his name said – by game announcers (including Vin Scully, who was also the announcer for Reuss’s team at that time, the Dodgers), anchors on ESPN Sportscenter and CNN Sports Tonight, etc. – it was always pronounced “Royce”. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-reuss/589343/9 "2011-07-18T00:11:35Z")
Depends how Reuss himself pronounces it. If he pronounces it “Smith,” then that is correct. (And then there’s “Favre.”) ---
**Author:** ![inkling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f17d59/32.png) [@inkling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/inkling)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-reuss/589343/10 "2011-07-18T00:33:38Z")
Even Wikipedia says it’s “Royce”: > **[Jerry Reuss](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Reuss)** > > Jerry Reuss (born June 19, 1949)—pronounced "royce"—is an American former left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball, best known for his years with the Los Angeles Dodgers. > Reuss played for eight teams in his major league career; along with the Dodgers (1979–87), he played for the St. Louis Cardinals (1969–71), Houston Astros (1972–73), and Pittsburgh Pirates (1974–78). At the end of his career (1987–90), he played for the Cincinnati Reds, California Angels, Chicago White Sox, Milwaukee Brewe... I believe I have heard Vin Scully say it so on the air, but my memory could be playing tricks on me. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-reuss/589343/11 "2011-07-18T00:53:24Z")
Asked and answered already, evidently. But if we didn’t know this, my first thought would be ‘royce’; OTOH if the person is one of the scores of millions of Americans who have names of German extraction, I try to pronounce it as they would. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-reuss/589343/12 "2011-07-18T02:09:19Z")
I remember that when he pitched for the Pirates, announcer Bob Prince gave him the nickname “Royster,” to sound like “Oyster.”