How do you pronounce the name of a man?

I don't know if this belongs in either GQ orMPSIMS.Since I am pretty sure it has an answer, I thought I would put it here.

I was wondering if the pronunciation of his name was correct.It seems like whenever one of his movies is promoted on TV, it's pronounced "Rafe" instead of "Ralph".I don't know what I'm missing here.Is that regional pronunciation from wherever he is from?I never hear his brother's name pronounced "Jofes".

Someone please remove me of my ignorantness.The question has been bothering me for a while.

It is pronounced "Rafe".It is the Anglo-Saxon pronunciation.The English composer's name was pronounced the same way.

I didn't see that little detail about his name.I didn't know that individual actors had questions.I thought only movies had questions.

I missed out on a little information about his name.I didn't know that individual actors had questions.I thought only movies had questions.There are no words for it.

Adding a little to the confusion.It is not always pronounced that way in the UK.My next door neighbour is a man.

That pretentious git makes me angry.He gets all holier-than-thou about it because he doesn't take any regional differences into account.I hope I meet him one day and he asks me how I am.

Come on.It is not as if he picked his own name, it was given to him by his parents.I would feel free to correct people if they called me "Step Hen W'rriguhutuh" the way my name is actually spelled.

Early variations in pronunciations in certain words date back to Elizabethan times.Spelling back then reflected the different regional variations in dialect and pronunciation.Some words were pronunced with an "l" by some speakers, while others were not.Although variation gradually disapeared and one pronunciation became standard, the two pronunciations of "Ralph" have survived because of family traditions.

The French Dauphin was referred to as the "Dolphin" in Shakespeare's plays, but it seems likely that the speaker would make a different decision.