A word to all radio announcers of classical music: There is no accent in Claude Debussy's name. Thus, there is no reason to pronounce it Débussy. The e is plain, a sort of "uh" sound, as it is in the ...
Back in 2018, radio host Justin Kaufmann and I cooked up a game called the Chicago Accent Challenge. Each Monday, listeners would call into Kaufmann’s radio show and answer questions such as “Welcome ...