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

[David Lennick]

No doubt a vowel was dropped at the end of the original surname, like Genetta.

Scandinavians have problems with a soft G as well..we had an engineer at the 
CBC who loved "dyazz".

dl

On 1/19/2013 3:27 PM, Gene Baron wrote:
> 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).
>>>