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This thread seems to have come at the right time for me. I picked up a book on Bouguereau the other day, but I don't know that I've ever heard his name said by anyone else. I stumble over it every time. I guess I know now!
On a side note, everyone always asks me about my last name. It's my married name. For anyone who has not seen it before, they would never be able to pronounce it correctly. Meierotto pronounced my-row-tee. It sounds Italian when said, but it is actually German. This can be seen when broken down into 'meier' and 'otto', which are both common in German names. The other day on the news, they had the first person in Iowa to contract the West Nile Virus - a man with my last name, but not directly related. I couldn't believe that all of the newspeople actually managed to say it and spell it correctly!
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