Thread: How do you pronounce "Lajoie"?
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Old 10-30-2003, 01:32 PM
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Default How do you pronounce "Lajoie"?
Posted By: BigSpiderBeck

I have always heard "Lajoie" pronounced by others as "la-JOY", stress on second syllable, not that it comes up much with the savages I hang out with. Recently, on a re-run of the Ken Burns Baseball series, I heard the narrator, in stately and learned narrator tones, refer to Ol' 106 as "LAH-j'way", strong stress on first syllable, and I gather the correct French pronunciation of this surname. How do you think Lajoie himself pronounced it? How do you folks pronounce it? I shall defer to your expertise.

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