Whoa, speaking of stressed...
la fee ET for me.
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I think I've used all pronunciations interchangeably over the years depending on how fast I was speaking.
Maybe its a matter of how you pronounce the first syllable. Does it sound like "LOt" or "LAugh". If the former, I would expect more emphasis on the last syllable. If the laterr, then more emphasis on the first syllable. My 2c.
Thank you for that little tribute [[at least I think it was a tribute). The name change history of East Lafayette is a bit strange [[I think W. Lafayette was always called Lafayette). As far as i can tell from old maps, etc. the street was originally named Lafayette. Sometime around 1890 the street's name was changed to Champlain, for reasons unknown. In the 1910s though [[different sources have it as 1914, 1918, or 1920), again for reasons unknown, the name was changed back to E. Lafayette.