I get more replies in metric than in imperial.
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I realize it’s my fault, but I still don’t have a sense of how to say it.
More close to Matt-jir Fan der pole?
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Ooh. Another advantage of riding a recumbent I’d not thought of.
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Imagine how many replies there would be if chain waxing was complicated 
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You’re getting closer.
What I meant was to use the middle sound of “sir”, not the “s” and not the “r”, just the middle sound which is close to “ø” or “eu” in french. The “j” in the phonetic “Mat:jø” is a thin “j”-sound not like in “joe” but thinner. Can’t think of an english word that has that sound. Maybe the “j” at the start if you say the slavic name “yuri”.
Mat:jø fan der Pool
This is hard :-/
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Does not sound at all the same. @NotRailingTurns explanation is really good. “sir” without s and r = ö or ø; Mat.jø
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I heard something exactly halfway between Math-yew and Matt-ee-er. So, only do the “th” halfway, sort of slip it the “ee” before the “y”, and split the difference between a W and and R. Easy as “Qatar.”
Argggghhhh.
Since I don’t want to just pick on GCN the most recent Ask a Cycling Coach (410) Jonathan is calling him Matthew!
Edit: and Nate!
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Supplements and magic creams never live up to the hype, meaning that the psychological disbenefit creates an overall negative performance overall. So they make you slower, and poorer.
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We still haven’t found consensus on how it’s pronounced in this thread among the people who claim to know the proper pronunciation, so I’m not surprised people find it confusing. I am literally going to do as mentioned above and just call him MVDP.
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It’s like my old boss, he didn’t know what he wanted at times but could definitely tell you what he didn’t want!
I think you’re probably right, and I fully admit that considering it’s not my name (although I am a Matthew) I’m far too annoyed by it!
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Anyone who speaks French, Dutch or German knows how to pronounce it. Failure to explain it to English speakers does not equate not knowing how to pronounce it.
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I used to work for a large multinational company, and I hated when physical answering machines went away because when I was unsure of a name, I would call the person’s office phone at midnight their time just to hear them say their own name “Hi, this is Mathieu, please leave a message”. I would listen and repeat over and over until I had it right.
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I don’t agree because I know people who speak those languages who pronounce their names differently.
You can never go wrong with listening to me and my advice! 
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I meant these 3 languages make use of the “eu” sound.
Try explaining the English “th” sound to a French speaker…
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