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Originally Posted by Snapolit1
How someone pronounced their name is obviously a different question than how others would pronounce it. If you ask people who speak Italian how my family name is pronounced I suspect few of them would accurately say how my name is commonly pronounced in the US among non Italian speakers. And I'm sure this was even more true 100 years ago when foreign names were probably not considered particularly desirable in many parts.
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Originally Posted by BillyCox3
Eddie Cicotte is "SEE-cott" as per the player's own phonetic spelling of it when asked the question.
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The Italian language is very phonetically pure - that is, the spelling tells you exactly how it's pronounced. There are some regional variations of course (in parts of Tuscany, the word "Casa", meaning "house", sounds like "Hasa", with the "C" eaten, as they say.)
But Cicotte, in Italian, is pronounced: Chee-CO-tay.
So, applying to Lajoie, how his name was pronounced in France or French Canada might not be what was used in the English speaking USA.