Gilbert Becaud
How do i pronounce Becaud?
As in Gilbert Becaud 
bu-cod (short ‘u’).
or…
be-cod, as in, (see below).
Usage
Like other Latin vowels, ‹e› came in a long and a short variety. Originally, the only difference was in length but later on, short ‹e› represented /ɛ/. In other languages that use the ‹e›, it represents various other phonetic values, sometimes with accents to indicate contrasts (‹e ê é è ë ē ĕ ě ẽ ė ẹ ę ẻ›).
Digraphs with ‹e› are common in many languages to indicate diphthongs and monophthongs, such as ‹ea› or ‹ee› for /iː/ or /eɪ/ in English, ‹ei› for /aɪ/ in German, and ‹eu› for /ø/ in French or /ɔɪ/ in German.
In English, the salient phenomenon silent e’s, although arising from old inflections that have been dropped, still retain a function as they indicate that certain vowels in the word are long vowels (for example rat has a short vowel and rate has a long one).
‹E› is the most common (or highest frequency) letter in the English alphabet (starting off the typographer’s phrase ETAOIN SHRDLU) and several other European languages, which has implications in both cryptography and data compression. This makes it a hard and popular letter to use when writing lipograms. Ernest Vincent Wright’s Gadsby (1939) is considered a “dreadful” novel, and that “at least part of Wright’s narrative issues were caused by language limitations imposed by the lack of E.” Both Georges Perec’s novel A Void (La Disparition) (1969) and its English translation by Gilbert Adair omit ‹e› and are considered better works.
Gilbert Bécaud : Et maintenant (« Champs-Elysée » 1987)
