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

[Michael Biel]

From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> Scandinavians have problems with a soft G as well..
> we had an engineer at the CBC who loved "dyazz".   dl

There is no soft J, soft G, or leading H in Russian.  So it is Dzazz,
Gollywood, and Gamlet, with hard G on the latter two.  They could use
the guttural Ch for those latter two, but they don't. They even spell
those two words with a G, and Dzazz with a D.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com  



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).