{"id":113517,"date":"2026-03-14T08:17:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T12:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/etienne-de-los-saints-reveals-correct-pronunciation-of-his-last-name\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T08:17:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T12:17:43","slug":"etienne-de-los-saints-reveals-correct-pronunciation-of-his-last-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nfl\/etienne-de-los-saints-reveals-correct-pronunciation-of-his-last-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Etienne de los Saints reveals correct pronunciation of his last name"},"content":{"rendered":"METAIRIE, LA. \u2013 New Orleans Saints running back Travis Etienne has decided to clarify the pronunciation of his last name.\n\nEtienne, originally from Jennings, Louisiana, revealed that during his childhood his last name was pronounced as &#8220;Achane&#8221;.\n\nUpon entering Clemson in 2017, he found himself constantly correcting those who pronounced his last name as &#8220;ETN&#8221;. Eventually, Etienne opted to accept the alternative pronunciation, tired of the constant corrections.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cGrowing up, it was Travis [Achane]. A-C-H-A-N-E. That\u2019s how they always said it, Travis [Achane]. But when I went to college, I told them my name, every day, every day, every day. After about four weeks, they just couldn\u2019t get it. So I thought, \u2018Man, it\u2019s [ETN]. How you see it, you say it.\u2019 That\u2019s how it became, and it kind of took off because it was easier for the commentators to say, I didn\u2019t have to correct them every day [about] how to say my name. Just when I started learning more about my last name and how it came about\u2026 it just kind of stuck, it made sense.\u201d<\/p><cite>Travis Etienne<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nEtienne is excited to reconnect with his roots after signing with the Saints this week.\n\nThe deal with the Saints is for four years and $52 million, after having played five seasons for the Jacksonville Jaguars.\n\n&#8220;I&#8217;m very open to being Travis [Achane] again, just being myself,&#8221; Etienne stated. &#8220;I don&#8217;t have to correct people here on how to say my name every day. And I love that. Just being myself.&#8221;","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>METAIRIE, LA. \u2013 New Orleans Saints running back Travis Etienne has decided to clarify the pronunciation of his last name. Etienne, originally from Jennings, Louisiana, revealed that during his childhood his last name was pronounced as &#8220;Achane&#8221;. Upon entering Clemson in 2017, he found himself constantly correcting those who pronounced his last name as &#8220;ETN&#8221;. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":113518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[12270,1471,12271,12272],"class_list":{"0":"post-113517","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-achane","9":"tag-new-orleans-saints","10":"tag-pronunciation","11":"tag-travis-etienne"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}