[78-L] How do you pronounce "Gennett"?

[David Lennick]

The family name was Italian, actually.

dl

On 1/19/2013 2:42 PM, David Breneman wrote:
>
> --- On Sat, 1/19/13, David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>  wrote:
>
>> That's a soft G. And emphasis on the
>> second syl-LAB-ble.
>
> Interesting.
>
> I would expect it to be spelled "Genette" if that were
> the case.  There's no accounting for how people pronounce
> their family names (an associate of mine named Keane
> pronounces it "Cane").  But "Gennett" as a hard G with
> the accent on the first syllable seems a no-brainer.
> It appears to be a central European name, and there are
> no soft Gs in German (not even in "Germania").  :-)
> It's like the difference between Giselle (Jiz-el') and
> Gisele (Gee'-za-la).
>
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