The always amazingly helpful NPR head librarian, Kee Malesky, ends any debate:
According to the company (this is how they answer the phone), it's --
LEE-man Brothers
categories: Inside 'Planet Money'
Planet Money
How Do You Prounounce 'Lehman Brothers'?
Heh, I heard it plenty yesterday and today and it still doesn't sound right compared to looking at it. Of course, you probably don't want a financial firm to be called "layman". ;-) Never understood "bear" in the name of a Wall Street firm either, even though that was the guy's name. ;-)
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