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

[Kristjan Saag]

We have no problems with the soft G at all, David.
In Scandinavian languages the G is either hard, as in "gutter", or soft, 
but then sounds like the English Y - "yester". The J in Scandinavian 
languages is identical to the Scandinavian G in pronunciation.
The soft English G(as in "giant"), which actually is written dz in the 
International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), doesn't exist in Scandinavian 
languages.
So the "dyazz" pronunciation is, in fact, closer to the major value that 
IPA(International Phonetic Alphabet) states for both the soft English G 
and the English J.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key

And it's definitely very close to Willis Conover's pronunciation, which 
set the standard for most Swedish jazz listeners in the 1950's and 60's.
Here's an example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJCy2Tv9erw
The Estonian spelling ofjazz, by the way, is similar to the 
Russian,using the dz to indicate the first consonant.
Kristjan





On 2013-01-19 22:47, Michael Biel wrote:
> 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).
> _______________________________________________
> 78-L mailing list
> 78-L at klickitat.78online.com
> http://klickitat.78online.com/mailman/listinfo/78-l
>