S O'Neill wrote in message ...
Last Samurai wrote:

isn't that how the Dubois, Idaho pronounced as?

I was told that there is some story behind it. IIRC, something about a
weird name that the people wanted to register for their town, the
officials refused and at the last moment picked a random name, of some
city official. People were ****ed and they decided to pronounce it as
Doo-Boys.


The name of the town was Never Sweat, at the headwaters of the Wind
River in western Wyoming. It grew large enough they wanted a post
office, so they submitted it to the PG of the US. He said you can have
your post office, but it's gonna be called DuBois (doo-bwa, the PG's own
name). The people said no, it's gonna be Doo-boys.


Thanks! Yes, never sweat it was. I vaguely remembered the reference to
some post office. I was told about this when a couple of my colleagues
visited the town and came back with this interesting history.

I had a friend I use to work with with that name... his pronounciation
Lan Juh Vin

That same pronunciation is used by a woman Engineer I knew at IBM
named Kelly Langevin. But we're pretty used to French pronunciations up
here in the U.S. North Country where the nearest big city is Montreal...

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