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I've heard zheez-LEN and ghee-LEN, because if you pronounce it in the French way, you harden the G and drop the s-sound. The soft g and pronounced s-sound is Belgian, at least that's what my Luxembourgish friend tells me. I prefer it the Belgian way, but the hard g can be pretty too.

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I'm actually very glad the s-sound is dropped... otherwise my uncle would have ruined for me when he said, by looking at the name, "sounds like gasoline". But when you pronounce it right, it barely sounds anything like it. I love this name... might even be courageous enough to use it someday.

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ETA: a cute nn for the ghee-LEN pronunciation could be Gilly.

This message was edited 10/25/2011, 12:14 PM