AC Milan

[RodBee]

How come everyone seems to be calling them 'AC Meelan', in 'Meelan', etc?

To us British it has always been Milan so why the change in 2007?

We do not pronounce Barcelona 'Barthelona', Valencia 'Balenthia', Paris 'Paree' so what's special about Milan??

 

[Brain-dead Bee]

How come everyone seems to be calling them 'AC Meelan', in 'Meelan', etc?

To us British it has always been Milan so why the change in 2007?

We do not pronounce Barcelona 'Barthelona', Valencia 'Balenthia', Paris 'Paree' so what's special about Milan??

And it's not even what they call themselves. It's Milano in Italian, isn't it, with the stress on the A?

 

[Edmundo]

The club is called AC Milan, not AC Milano, because it was founded by an Englishman. Calling it Mee-lan is an affectation, driven by the supposition that Ruud Gullit knows how to pronounce it. I think originally the English pronounced it Millan, with the emphasis on the first syllable, though now most people sem to pronounce it Mil-Lan with the emphasis on the second, perhaps because that's closer to the way the Milanese do.

 

[Jimbee]

James Richardson started it.

 

[rebus]

James Richardson started it.

He said that before Euro 96 Jim.

 

[hanworthbee]

ask any Inter fan and they're called the pigs

 

[The H]

won't see many Inter fans around at the moment

 

[TW1Bee]

How would David Pleat pronounce it ? Probably Mylinn

 

[wibs]

motson would probably pronounce it Juventus

 

[Simon W]

James Richardson started it.

First time I heard them being called Meelan was by Brian Granville or Glanville ?? .. I think he was a sports reporter for the Times and was in the know on a football in Italy and sometimes appeared on Sky news sports bulletins back in the early ninties.