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Formentera Lady 
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Joined: August 20 2010 Location: Germany Status: Offline Points: 1795 |
 Posted: May 23 2013 at 10:09 |
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Now that we have solved 'Ian', how do we pronounce 'Gillan'? With a hard g or like 'ji'?
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CPicard
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Joined: October 03 2008 Location: Là, sui monti. Status: Offline Points: 10841 |
Posted: May 23 2013 at 10:17 |
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Ah, this question puzzles me for years. Can one ask Gillian Anderson an autograph if one isn't even sure of the pronounciation of liter... Er, sorry: the pronounciation of her first name?
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Dean
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Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout Joined: May 13 2007 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 37575 |
Posted: May 23 2013 at 10:26 |
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Gillian is pronounced Gillian. There is no other way. |
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What?
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Formentera Lady
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Joined: August 20 2010 Location: Germany Status: Offline Points: 1795 |
Posted: May 23 2013 at 10:35 |
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Is it possible that Gillian is pronounced differently than Gillan?
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CPicard
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Joined: October 03 2008 Location: Là, sui monti. Status: Offline Points: 10841 |
Posted: May 23 2013 at 10:40 |
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Stool Man
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Joined: January 30 2007 Location: Anti-Cool (anag Status: Offline Points: 2689 |
Posted: May 23 2013 at 10:43 |
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In China I once heard the name "Simon" pronounced "see-mun", with hilarious results
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rotten hound of the burnie crew
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Dean
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Posted: May 23 2013 at 10:44 |
Completely differently.
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What?
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chopper
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: July 13 2005 Location: Essex, UK Status: Offline Points: 20030 |
Posted: May 23 2013 at 12:07 |
Yes, because they're different words. Gillian has a soft "G" as in "Jill" and Gillan (as in Ian) has a hard "G". Ah, the wonders of the English language - see "ghoti" for further details. |
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chopper
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Posted: May 23 2013 at 12:09 |
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And this guy really confuses things.
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CPicard
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Joined: October 03 2008 Location: Là, sui monti. Status: Offline Points: 10841 |
Posted: May 23 2013 at 12:12 |
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French language can be worse. The sound "o" can be written in many forms: "seau" and its plural form "seaux" ("bucket" / "buckets"), "sots" ("fool"), "saut" ("jump"), "sceau" ("sceal")... are pronounced the same way.
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Evolver
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Posted: May 23 2013 at 12:31 |
And "jpg" should be pronounced "gay-peg"?
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Trust me. I know what I'm doing.
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zappaholic
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Posted: May 23 2013 at 20:44 |
"Throat-Wobbler Mangrove". |
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"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H.L. Mencken
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Formentera Lady
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Posted: May 26 2013 at 08:01 |
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Thanks for clarifying these things! You don't believe that I am learning English from this site, do you?
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ExittheLemming
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Posted: May 26 2013 at 09:04 |
I have a Finnish friend who told me that most Scandinavian teenagers of her vintage (she's in her early 50's) learned English from listening to Beatles records, (with a resultant unwittingly comedic Liverpudlian 'Scouse' accent) |
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refugee
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Posted: May 26 2013 at 10:23 |
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I once met an Italian woman who claimed she had learned English from listening to early Genesis. Her English was excellent, btw. Peter Gabriel & co are obviously good teachers.
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He say nothing is quite what it seems;
I say nothing is nothing (Peter Hammill) |
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irrelevant
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Posted: May 26 2013 at 11:22 |
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"Lan"
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The Dark Elf
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Posted: May 26 2013 at 14:59 |
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...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined
to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
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refugee
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Posted: May 26 2013 at 15:21 |
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He say nothing is quite what it seems;
I say nothing is nothing (Peter Hammill) |
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CPicard
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Posted: May 26 2013 at 17:05 |
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In doubt, just call him "Hey, you!".
That should do the trick. |
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Vibrationbaby
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Posted: June 20 2013 at 15:26 |
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You're all wrong. Ian means God is gracious. It has nothing to do with the gaelic language contrary to what you may find on the internet.
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Formentera Lady wrote: