"Hagiography"

       Kevin Peraino was interviewed tonight about his new biography on Lincoln's foreign policy.  He spoke of wanting to avoid a hagiography and pronounced the first syllable with a long "a" instead of to rhyme with "bag."   I figure any of these causes for his mispronunciation:

       1.  He was influenced by the Hague in the Netherlands;
       2.  He was influenced by memories of Alexander Hague;
       3.  He's a wide reader but learned words before he heard them pronounced;
       4.  He's Jewish and knows the Hagiographa is the third part of the Hebrew Bible, The Writings, and can be pronounced with long "a";
       5.  He's Catholic and knows hagiography can have long "a" when it is a life of the saints.

       I gather Peraino's is a good book and not a hagiography (an idealized biography of anyone).