Boucher pronunciation.

[Carl Anderton]

You say Bow-sher, I say Boo-Shay...it seems that some people say "Butcher"...guess we'll never straighten it out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_L._Boucher

[Rob MacKillop]

I say Boocher with the ch as in Scottish loch, a gutteral sound. Whatever.

[Chris Propes]

To add more coal to the fire, I say, " Bow-cher".

[Greg Adams]

I don't know if I'm spreading apocryphal information because I wasn't there, but I do believe that William Boucher's descendants do pronounce it as "boo-shay." Members of the banjo collector's community had a chance to correspond with these folks in recent years and that's what they were told. If I can track down the authoritative information on this front, I'll surely pass it on.

Greg

[Trapdoor2]

My brain sez Our Hero, Mr. Wunderlich, spoke on this subject at the last AEBG and Boo-Shay was the result.

[Joel Hooks]

I don't know what you guys are all talking about, I call them "banjos."