How do you pronounce SSPX founder Lefebvre's name?

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Can someone spell it out phonetically? Is it pronounced Le-feb-vray?
 
Apollos said:
leh-FEE-ver
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That is how the announcers always said it for the Dodgers second baseman, Jim Lefebvre back in the 60’s, but he was born in California. But I have always heard the archbishop’s name pronounced with a better attempt at keeping to the French way of saying it, like Phemie put it.
 
RoryMcKenzie56 said:
That is how the announcers always said it for the Dodgers second baseman, Jim Lefebvre back in the 60’s, but he was born in California. But I have always heard the archbishop’s name pronounced with a better attempt at keeping to the French way of saying it, like Phemie put it.
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In the same way as Benoit in Maine is often pronounce Buh-noyt but a French person will pronounce it Buh-nwah, silent ‘t’.
 
I mostly hear it pronounced “Luh-Fev” or “Luh-Feh-ver” - most SSPX Priests say the former.
 
This one’s a thinker. I have been wondering if it was “luh-FEV-reh”. Reminds me of trying to pronounce Bret Favre’s name.
 
In all Indo-European languages, of which French is one, the vowels are all pronounced one way no matter what the word. a=ah; e=eh, i=eee, o=oh, u=ooo. Therefore Lefevbre would be pronounced LEH-FEHV-REH, with the b being silent.

Hope this helps.

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Luh-fev-ruh. At least that’s how my French-speaking acquaintances would pronounce it.
 
Javl said:
Je parle Francais et le nom ce prononce “LEHFEHVFREH”.

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In the same way as the ‘e’ in ‘bec’ is not pronounced the same way as the ‘e’ in ‘bedaine’, the second ‘e’ in ‘Lefebvre’ is not pronounced the same way as the first and third.

It’s pronounced as though it were written “Lefèvre”
 
Javl said:
In all Indo-European languages, of which French is one, the vowels are all pronounced one way no matter what the word. a=ah; e=eh, i=eee, o=oh, u=ooo. Therefore Lefevbre would be pronounced LEH-FEHV-REH, with the b being silent.

Hope this helps.

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The French ‘e’ is not pronounced the same as the Spanish ‘e’, it’s ‘uh’ rather than ‘eh’
nor is the ‘u’ pronounced ‘ooo’ as it is in Spanish. In French that ‘ooo’ sound is heard when ‘u’ is combined with ‘o’ as in ‘bouton’ (button) or ‘pour’ (for). ‘Bu’ (past part. of ‘boire’ [drink]) is not pronounced the same as ‘bou’ in ‘bouton’.

prononciation.tripod.com/u.htm
 
Je parle francais aussi mais je pense que le nom est prononcé “Luh-feh-vruh.”

In French, “le” is not pronounced “leh” but rather “luh” with kind of an uh sound (not quite sure how to depict it.)
 
jdc209 said:
Je parle francais aussi mais je pense que le nom est prononcé “Luh-feh-vruh.”

In French, “le” is not pronounced “leh” but rather “luh” with kind of an uh sound (not quite sure how to depict it.)
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It’s very difficult to render the sound of French syllables in English. I wracked my brain but just couldn’t come up with anything in English that sounds like ‘u’.
 
jdc209 said:
Je parle francais aussi mais je pense que le nom est prononcé “Luh-feh-vruh.”

In French, “le” is not pronounced “leh” but rather “luh” with kind of an uh sound (not quite sure how to depict it.)
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Est ce que vous parle le Francais Canadien? J’ai habitue dans le France au Paris est je ne jamais pas avais pronoce cette nome comci.

Anyway, pronounce it the way everyone understands it.

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Phemie said:
It’s very difficult to render the sound of French syllables in English. I wracked my brain but just couldn’t come up with anything in English that sounds like ‘u’.
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It is the sound of the second syllable of “elephant” in natural speech (not the way we say it when we are thinking about it.) This sound is called “shwa”.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwa
 
Javl said:
Est ce que vous parle le Francais Canadien? J’ai habitue dans le France au Paris est je ne jamais pas avais pronoce cette nome comci.

Anyway, pronounce it the way everyone understands it.
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Unless you have had some linguistics training you very well might not be aware of how you actually pronounce it. The perceptions of even native speakers are influenced by orthography, allophone distribution, and other factors. Judging by your erroneous comment on Indo-European vowels, you have no linguistics training. Based on the errors in your French, you do not seem to be a native speaker.
 
jdc209 said:
Je parle francais aussi mais je pense que le nom est prononcé “Luh-feh-vruh.”

In French, “le” is not pronounced “leh” but rather “luh” with kind of an uh sound (not quite sure how to depict it.)
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Q’est ce qu’on dit “Des Moines”?
 
I had to be amused by this inquiry.

When I (sort of) learned French, the professor very carefully instructed us how to say that particular “re” combination. You basically have to choke on it just a little. And, no, there is no way on earth to compare it to anything in English. It’s a little easier, though not much, to do the little choking thing if you keep the outer edges of your tongue up against your upper teeth in the back. But you still have to very lightly close, or nearly close, your throat for part of it. (Ah! Quanto a dire qual e cosa dura! I know, that’s not French, but I just couldn’t help saying it, because it fits.)

Trying to pronounce "LeFevre reminds me of an old comedy routine in which the comedian (Steve Martin, I think) was going on about the French language and began pronouncing it. That “choking” business became more and more pronounced. He then grabbed his throat and staggered backwards. Then, switching characters, he yelled “He’s dead! He spoke French!”

Anyway, struck me as funny.
 
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