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how do you pronounce Bogosian?


i asked this same question at Eric's main page, but observing the fact that no one has posted there since june, i thought i'd ask you guys too.

i need to know how to pronounce this man's last name.
i'm doing a monologue from 'Suburbia' as an audition peice and i dont want to look like an idiot and say it wrong in front of the director, but i've never actually heard his name pronounced- i've only read it.

when i say it out loud i pronounce it ' Bow-guh-sigh-on' but somehow that seems wrong...

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Buh-go-see-in.

That was how I always pronounced it, but was a little curious if it wasn't Buh-go-shin. Like the whole Buscemi thing - Boo-sem-ee or Boo-schem-ee or Buh-schem-ee. But I saw Bogosian on Craig Ferguson's show a couple weeks back - definitely Buh-go-see-in.

Good luck with the monologue.

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thanks so much.

ferguson rules...

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BO-GO-SEE-YAN. IT IS AN ARMENIAN LAST NAME. ALMOST ALL ARMENIAN LAST NAMES END IN IAN OR YAN.


GOOD LUCK.

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