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Rob M (ramram)I find this topic interesting because we all have often read about many of these names over the years and had in our minds all this time our own interpretation of the pronunciations. It's often quite a shock to hear that we weren't even close. I was one that for years thought it was La Joy only to find out a couple of years ago it was La Zha way. We've come so far in translating so much of our WRITTEN history back thousands of years and yet we often don't even know the VERBAL pronunciation of words a little over a hundred years ago. For instance, do we truly even know if the early Greeks pronounced a name like "Plato" as we do today or did they pronounce it "Gork"? How would we ever REALLY know?