Can anyone tell me the correct pronounciation of "Lefebvre"?

[Cider]

Popular media? Oh that’s right, apparently I’ve never been to LA at all. Or you assume I’ve only been to NO. Whatever, I’m not going to continue arguing with you.

 

[Phemie]

Yup, and we bastardized French in Louisiana would also say Jee-rue just like we would say Jee-rard (Girard).

Try growing up with a name like Servat (Sehr vaht’) - anglicized to Sir vat. Etymologically Breton French from the Latin observatus - the hidden one, the observerver. I have an almost daily chore of telling people that there is no “n” in my name. It is not servant or sehr vant.

Do you pronounce the ‘d’ in Girard and the ‘t’ in Servat? The ‘d’ would be silent in Canada, the tendency would be to do the same for the ‘t’ in Servat since a ‘t’ at the end of a word is usually silent: Sénat (the Senate) is cey-nah.

Of course, being polite, I’d pronounce your name any way you tell me you want it pronounced.

There are lots of places that have anglicized the pronunciation of French names – Benoit (buh-nwah to buh-noyt)
Coutu (they say coo-too and now I understand why because I can’t even think of a word in English that has the French ‘u’ sound.)
Pelletier (pel-tyay [the e sound in pel like the e in get, doesn’t sound like bell] to pell-luh-teer).
Favre (fah-vruh with a barely pronounced ‘uh’ to farv)
Boutillier (boo-tee-lyay to boot-leer or boot-lee-er) – that one is common in English Canada.