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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I've always said DAA-shell, with an A as in "attic".
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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...
Its not French, and I've heard it pro. Dash-ul.
It's DEE-ell
like the TV series Dashiell and Pascoe
like the TV series Dashiell and Pascoe
No - that's Dalziel
Dashiell Hammett took his mother's maiden name as his own first name (De Chiells), pronounced with a French emphasis on the second syllable.