pronunciation - according to hoyle ?

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Posted By: <b>steve</b><p>Just want to get it right, so I don't sound like a fool.<br /><br />1. Goudey<br /> Goo-dey or Gow-dey <br /><br />2. (Sweet) Caporal<br /> Accent on 1st, 2nd or 3rd syllable<br /><br />3. Dietsche<br /> Deet-she or ???<br /><br />4. Lajoie<br /> Cobb's bio states Laz-way, soft z, I think<br /><br />steve<br />

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Posted By: <b>Matt</b><p>Napoléon "Nap" Lajoie [la-ZHWAH, or often la-ZHWAY, per the Canadian French pronunciation] [Or, as he himself usually pronounced it, LAJ-a-way; source, Lee Allen in The American League Story]

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Posted By: <b>Jodi Birkholm</b><p>1. Like Harry Gowdy<br /><br />2. Capp-or-al (like Barlick, Bundy, or Coholic)<br /><br />3. The last one gets tricky. The true French pronunciation would be "La-zswuh" ("zs" as in "Zsa Zsa"), but his contemporaries said "La-zsoh-way" or "La-zsah-way".

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Posted By: <b>Jeff Lichtman</b><p>Deetch

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Posted By: <b>T206Collector</b><p>You can hear him introduced on the 1939 Baseball Hall of Fame CD. I believe it is LA-zha-way.<br /><br /><br><br>_ <u> </u> _ <u> </u> _ <u> </u> _ <u> </u> _ <u> </u> _ <u> </u> _ _ <br /><br />Visit <a href="http://www.t206collector.com" target="_new" rel="nofollow">http://www.t206collector.com</a> for my blog, interviews, articles, card galleries and more!<br /><br />

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Posted By: <b>Dave Hornish</b><p>What about Magee/Magie. I have heard more than one collector refer to the correctly spelled T206 as Mah-Gee (hard "g" and presumably the correct pronunciation) and the error as May gee (soft "g").