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How to pronounce Debevoise?

Post by Anonymous User » Sun Aug 25, 2013 2:18 pm

How to pronounce Debevoise properly? Please. Shall we say it the American way or French way? This firm is very fussy about the pronunciation and I've heard about stories that a bad pronunciation soured the entire CB.
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Re: How to pronounce Debevoise?

Post by ArtistOfManliness » Sun Aug 25, 2013 2:21 pm

call the receptionist, see how he/she pronounces it
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Re: How to pronounce Debevoise?

Post by Anonymous User » Sun Aug 25, 2013 2:21 pm

DEB-uh-voiss
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Re: How to pronounce Debevoise?

Post by mr.hands » Sun Aug 25, 2013 2:22 pm

Anonymous User wrote:DEB-uh-voiss
right. The last syllable being "voys." deb-uh-voys.

For everything good and holy don't go with the French pronunciation
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Re: How to pronounce Debevoise?

Post by Xaintes » Sun Aug 25, 2013 2:24 pm

This is helpful in general: http://law.duke.edu/career/pronunciation/
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Re: How to pronounce Debevoise?

Post by Anonymous User » Sun Aug 25, 2013 2:27 pm

Xaintes wrote:This is helpful in general: http://law.duke.edu/career/pronunciation/
Life saver! Thanks!
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