How do you pronounce "Lajoie?"

[JohnBL]

I've followed baseball history since I was a kid, but it occured to me
recently that I've never heard Nap Lajoie's name pronounced, only seen
it in print.

Lah-zho-way? La-joey? Or the French Lah-zhwah?

Thanks in advance,
John L.

[Roger Moore]

"JohnBL" <Car...@aol.com> writes:

>I've followed baseball history since I was a kid, but it occured to me
>recently that I've never heard Nap Lajoie's name pronounced, only seen
>it in print.

>Lah-zho-way? La-joey? Or the French Lah-zhwah?

Nap came from a French speaking family- there is (or was) a
French-Canadian community in Woonsocket that produced both Lajoie and
Clem Labine- and pronounced it the French way, Lah-zhwah. His
contemporaries weren't quite as particular and butchered it in various
ways.

--
Roger Moore | Master of Meaningless Trivia | (r...@alumni.caltech.edu)
There's no point in questioning authority if you don't listen to the answers.

[Don McC]

"JohnBL" <Car...@aol.com> queried:

>
> I've followed baseball history since I was a kid, but it occured
> to me recently that I've never heard Nap Lajoie's name pronounced,
> only seen it in print.
>
> Lah-zho-way? La-joey? Or the French Lah-zhwah?

I've heard "Lah-zho-way," but this has been argued before.
I believe Ken Burns' televised history had it "Lah-zho-way."
http://tinyurl.com/yugp62

Some of the confusion is due to baseball executive Bill Lajoie
(pronounced "La-joy").
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Lajoie

--
Don

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are much more pliable.
~ Mark Twain