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Old 06-15-2017, 10:01 AM   #68
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Originally Posted by Sweetpea View Post
Not being English, how should you pronounce that name then? (I always pronounce it like that in my head...) I'm talking about the first name...
The narrator was getting the "s" and the "p" the wrong way around. It's "Maupassant", not "Mausappant".

Given that he was a French writer, I'm pretty sure he would pronounce his first name "gee" to rhyme with "see", with a hard "g".
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