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[Facts] Dashiell pronounciation...
Dashiell - How is this French male name pronounced? I've heard people put the emphasis on the beginning and the end.
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Dashiell Hammett took his mother's maiden name as his own first name (De Chiells), pronounced with a French emphasis on the second syllable.
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It's DEE-elllike the TV series Dashiell and Pascoe
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No - that's Dalziel
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Its not French, and I've heard it pro. Dash-ul.
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I'd pronounce it Daa-shell...but it ain't french, the elements "sh" and "ll" at the end of a name don't exist in french (i'm french), but it's perhaps only the origin...
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I've always said DAA-shell, with an A as in "attic".Array
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