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Re: Virginia
by Manipura (glaucous)
5/24/2020, 5:59 PM
in reply to a message by Martha
...Ginny and Jenny aren't pronounced the same?
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- Cake or Death (queenv)   +3
5/24/2020, 6:06 PM
I don't pronounce them the same. Ginny has the same I sound as in the word "bin" and Jenny as the same E sound as in the word "den". But then if you pronounce "bin" and "den" to rhyme, that's not helpful lol.
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- Manipura (glaucous)   +2
5/24/2020, 6:27 PM
huh, I do pronounce the vowel in den like bin...I also thought Finn and Ben rhymed. I guess all the Jennifers I've met have been from the south and said it like jin.
I have heard Jenny pronounced in a movie more like Jeh-nee, but didn't think much of it, because it seems a really subtle difference.

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- Martha (CarolineCarolina)   +1
5/24/2020, 6:54 PM
The difference isn't subtle at all to me. It might be because my sister Genevieve went by Genny as a little girl and I always noticed when people said Ginny like her real name was Virginia. The pin/pen test for a southern accent is pretty right on.
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- Manipura (glaucous)
5/24/2020, 7:16 PM
My sister's nickname is Ginny and most people who didn't know her full name thought it was Jenny.

This message was edited 5/24/2020, 7:19 PM

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