>Robert's family pronounced it "Dukain", as in Calleigh Duquesne from
>CSI. Elizabeth's pronounced it "Du-kez-ne," and would get rather angry
>if you asked them "Are you sure?" because, well, it's their bloody
>name, they'd know.

There are a lot of Franco-Canadio-American families here in the Podunk region who pronounce their surnames in sort of the same Frenglish style as "cruSANT" earlier, viz. the Bealieurs ("Bowlyer"), the Potvins (pronounced just like it's spelled, nothing even slightly French-sounding about it), the Roys (ditto), and of course the ones who used to be on the Discovery Channel, the Pelletiers ("pelleteers", which I guess would be like a rocketeer or musketeer except with small, oblong pieces of stuff).

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