[78-L] PRONUNCIATION QUESTION

[David Lennick]

Are you any kin to that great operatic tenor Giovanni Jones?
http://i39.tinypic.com/2lwxis3.jpg
(Here's where we'd be at an advantage over on Facebook..the image would show 
automatically.)

Quebec French is totally different from France French..same deal.

dl

On 9/17/2014 1:31 AM, Sammy Jones wrote:
>
> My people are from Sicily, and we take pride in mis-pronouncing all kinds of
> words: Italian and English!
>
> Haven't you heard of the famous Palermo Joneses?
>
> On my mother's side, we're acutally Castellana and Bonano.
>
> My grandfather was in the U.S. Army in the '50s.  He was stationed in
> Germany, and took a trip with an army buddy to Rome (he was born in Tampa,
> Florida to immigrant parents).  When he spoke Italian to the Italians, they
> told him to speak English...they couldn't understand him!
>
> To keep this on topic, he MIGHT have picked up some Italian 78s on the
> trip...I'll likely never know.
>
> Sammy "the Sicilian" Jones
>
>
> dl wrote:
> I've always pronounced it zheel-yee as well, and I presume much of the world
> does..but it should be djeel-yee, as in agitato and adagio (which most
> people
> mispronounce as well). "zh" is French.
>
> dl
>
> On 9/15/2014 9:06 PM, Joe Salerno wrote:
>>
>> I'm no language expert but I pronounce it
>>
>> ZHEEL YEE
>>
>> Long E in both syllables. Accent on the first.
>>
>> Joe Salerno
>>
>> On 9/15/2014 7:39 PM, Ray Kilcoyne wrote:
>>>
>>> Thank goodness for all you classical experts here on the list.  I know
>>> next to nothing on this subject.
>>> (Or maybe Francesco is around.  I???d accept his interpretation also.)
>>> Can one of you, please, tell me the correct pronunciation of Beniamino
>>> Gigli?
>>> RayK
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