Curious Hair wrote:
"Cowen" is both truer to its Gaelic roots and how "Cown" would sound in a Texas drawl, so one way or the other...
bernstein would probably say that McCown is an ignorant hillbilly who can't even pronounce his own name. Ironically, the way danny pronounces his own last name isn't "correct" in a traditional sense. But of course, it is impossible for one to pronounce his own name incorrectly.
My own last name is a very guttural German one. My paternal grandmother was 100% Irish, just off the boat. Being the mama's boy that he was, my father identified as Irish rather than German. He took to pronouncing (mispronouncing?) our family name in a way that made it seem more Irish, dropping the "t" and pronouncing the "z" as an "s". My grandfather and I often took delight in teasing him that he didn't even know how to say his own name. But, as I said, my dad was entitled to pronounce his own name any way he desired. In fact, if my father, dan bernstein, and Josh McCown all want to pronounce their own surnames improperly, it's nobody business but their own.
I always get a kick out of it when bernstein pronounces Spanish words with a heavy accent the way a first generation Latino reporting from Guatemala for NPR would. Maybe Mitch should make him wear a sombrero.
li'l danny strikes me as a guy who insists on using the "proper" pronunciations for Chicago streets like Goethe and Mozart. Not only does doing so make you seem like an affected douche, it will probably get your cabdriver lost.
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