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Old 04-07-2016, 02:29 PM
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Originally Posted by trdcrdkid View Post
See this radio interview by Ty Cobb, in which he pronounces it LAH-zho-way:

http://net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=217869
Cobb and other anglophones might have pronounced it that way, but like most French names, they pronounced it incorrectly.
Nap's roots were French-Canadian, and here in Quebec the name is, and always was pronounced in two syllables not three... It's Laj-waa
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