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JORjeeANNa.
I prefer Georgina; don't enjoy the other two at all.
No doubt Jane Austen would have used the prevailing pronunciation, and judging by a poem by Keats, it would be four syllables, emphasis on the first and third, as I gave above. Apparently some well-known family (can't be that well-known because I can't remember who or what they were!) used to pronounce it jorJANEa, which seems like a family joke, but maybe some people wanted to copy them and used it as well.
I prefer Georgina; don't enjoy the other two at all.
No doubt Jane Austen would have used the prevailing pronunciation, and judging by a poem by Keats, it would be four syllables, emphasis on the first and third, as I gave above. Apparently some well-known family (can't be that well-known because I can't remember who or what they were!) used to pronounce it jorJANEa, which seems like a family joke, but maybe some people wanted to copy them and used it as well.
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