Talk:Renaud Lavillenie

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A news item involving Renaud Lavillenie was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the In the news section on 17 February 2014.

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Record

This guy just beat Bubka's indoor WR. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.78.251.108 (talk) 17:19, 15 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Name pronunciation

So which is it, [la.vi.lə.ni] or [la.vil.ni]? Those are very different pronunciations. I don't think we should be telling people how to pronounce his name if we have no idea. Kaldari (talk) 21:06, 17 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It's [la.vil.ni] in French, but in France you will hear almost all journalists pronounce [la.vi.le.ni]... Withenemies (talk) 21:56, 17 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I wonder if that's because they looked up our article to find out how to pronounce it :P Kaldari (talk) 20:45, 18 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

They pronounce it [la.vi.le.ni] (as if it was an "é"), not [la.vi.lə.ni]. I don't think I ever heard [la.vi.lə.ni]. Correct french pronunciation :) Withenemies (talk) 21:13, 18 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]