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Darcy James Argue? Is his last name pronounced as in "argument"?

EDIT: The answer is "yes." I just asked him directly via the blog. Duh... :crazy: Shoulda done that in the first place.

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This is an ambitious site for pronunciations -

and it doesn't necessarily feature the personal names

that we frequently search for here,

BUT, it seems to be fun and informative:

"All the Words in the World. Pronounced."

[if you go to the "Listen & Learn" link,

you'll get 30 randomly chosen words].

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This is an ambitious site for pronunciations -

and it doesn't necessarily feature the personal names

that we frequently search for here,

BUT, it seems to be fun and informative:

"All the Words in the World. Pronounced."

[if you go to the "Listen & Learn" link,

you'll get 30 randomly chosen words].

Thanks for the link! Very cool site...

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Bob Zieff? Like "life" or "leaf"? I can handle Bob.

where the name comes from people thought it rhymed with leaf i guess... (i've seen some funny german names from the US spelled with "ie" in a place where a "ei" belonged so that people pronounced it like "eye", such as "pfiefer" instead of the original german "pfeifer" (=piper), so that the pronouniation remains pf-eye-fer; but i wouldn't think zieff is such a name...)

of course all this doesn't say anything about how he wants it to be pronounced...

(quick google search: the name zeiff does exist in germany but it's rare, zieff is fairly common but mostly in the US - so maybe the name doesn't come from germany after all...)

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Probably completely obvious, but you never know....

Jutta Hipp?

Hipp is just Hip

"J" is like "Y" in "Yes", the "u" is the same sound as in "cool" but short (that's what the double "t" means) (nothing special about the "tta" like in "odetta" i guess)

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Probably completely obvious, but you never know....

Jutta Hipp?

Hipp is just Hip

"J" is like "Y" in "Yes", the "u" is the same sound as in "cool" but short (that's what the double "t" means) (nothing special about the "tta" like in "odetta" i guess)

Excellent explanation, Niko, thank you.

And not quite as obvious as I thought...

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Probably completely obvious, but you never know....

Jutta Hipp?

Hipp is just Hip

"J" is like "Y" in "Yes", the "u" is the same sound as in "cool" but short (that's what the double "t" means) (nothing special about the "tta" like in "odetta" i guess)

Excellent explanation, Niko, thank you.

And not quite as obvious as I thought...

sounds like Colorado.

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Rhymes with revs (as in what you might say that someone does with an engine).

I often saw him in the neighborhood in which I lived in the 1980s. For some time after he passed, I still half expected to see him when I rounded the corner at Mass. Ave. and Boylston Street. He seemed like a nice guy.

Bassist John Neves' last name?
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