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

[Gene Baron]

The folks I ran into in Richmond IN (where my son attended college)
used the soft G, acccent on 2nd syllable (think Jeanette as in
Jeanette MacDonald).

Gene
gene.baron at gmail.com


On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 2:46 PM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> 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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