"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie
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"The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney
"More importantly, is the "G" pronounced - as in "Tar-TAG-lee-uh", or silent, as in "Tar-TALL-yuh"? (or "imbroglio" or "filet mignon"?"
On the Tonys website, there's a little clip on John being interviewed right after Q won Best Musical. The guy who's doing the interview doesn't pronounce the "G." It makes me SO angry.
As a fellow Italian whose name is also Americanized in a very similar fashion, yes that would be closer to the original pronunciation but it is Americanized. With my last name, people do the same thing they do to his, they say it the Italian way and then you have to correct them and explain its the Americanized way that you use. For example, mine has a "CC" in it which we say as an "S" which is American, but Italians say it as a "ch" so it throws people off all the time. That's probably why so many people don't say the G when they say his name, even though the way he pronounces it the G is said.