Living in Cambridge, MA which boasts an Agassiz Street, an Agassiz School,
and a museum or two that owe their existence to him, I've never heard any
other pronounciation than AH-guh-see (the "AH" is a broad vowel, close to a
short a and the "guh" is really a "g-schwah")


>I have been requested to find out the correct phonetic pronunciation for
>the famous US natural scientist Louis Agassiz frpm the 19 century .
>
>Could the replies show Agassiz in  phonetic spelling:
>
>Thanks ,
>
>Terry McClafferty
>
>(Tear-ry   Mac-Claff-fer-ty)
>

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