Question: Correct Pronunciation of Parise?

I always catch myself pronouncing Parise a few different ways, I have heard announcers call him many different names also.

Pa-ri-zee
Pa-ri-si
Pa-ri-zay
Pa-ri-say


help, lol!

In French? None of the above.

American: Parizee
Canadian: Parizay

Doc is started to say Parizay last year because that's what JP goes by.

American: Parizee
Canadian: Parizay

Doc is started to say Parizay last year because that's what JP goes by.

yea, i was just going to post this. they talked about it last year. but i wonder how zach pronouces it? him being american born but his da being canadian

yea, i was just going to post this. they talked about it last year. but i wonder how zach pronouces it? him being american born but his da being canadian
I know he doesn't care how others say it, but I'd imagine he'd lean towards Parizee after growing up in the US and having people mispronounce it constantly.

I say Parizay. It sounds better with "zach" in it.

Also sometimes NHL.com types:

Zack Parise

I've always said Parisi but I did hear Doc later in the year say Parizay.

I say all of them... sometimes I say Parizay sometime ts Parizee and sometimes its Parisay.

I just don't know which to say :dunno:

With my limited knowledge of the french language and pronounciations, I would say it is Pareezay.

Pa-ri-zay is close to the original French pronunciation.

i remember doc metioning last year during a game that someone in the parise family said that the correct pronunciation is pa-ri-zay, but that zach didnt mind either way.

I always catch myself pronouncing Parise a few different ways, I have heard announcers call him many different names also.

Pa-ri-zee
Pa-ri-si
Pa-ri-zay
Pa-ri-say


help, lol!

When he was at UND, our broadcasters usually always said it "Pa-ri-si", so that's always how I say it, but sometimes I'll pronounce it with a Z instead of the S. Old habits die hard, so I've never been able to say it the last two ways.

the name "Parise" has a couple different variations like Parisi and Parissi but essentially it's an Italian name. It's from the name of the city, Paris. So it was used to indicate someone from there, or who was a merchant that went there. So I asked my mother who's from Italy how she would pronounce it and she said Pa-ri-say. Although she like rolled the r and what not....

So thats how I say it, take it for what it's worth, hope it helped.

parizee

America= Pa-ri-see, where the "ri" is pronounced as a long e.
Canada= Pa-ri-zay

Since he was born in, grew up in, played in, and is still currently playing in America, pronounce is the American way.