Message: "How do you pronounce Giada?"

How do you pronounce Giada?

by Jen (guest)

4/6/2005, 6:27 PM

How is the Italian, Giada, pronounced?

I assume: soft 'g' short 'a' then 'dah' accent on the first syllable.

Does the 'a' rhyme with "Donna" (or Gianna) is my main question, or is a long 'a' as in the English "Jade"? My husband, who's Italian, puts a slight 'i' sound where the 'i' is, stretches the 'a'and shortens the length of time on the final syllable. As an American with the name, how would it be said conversationally?

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- ADT

4/7/2005, 6:37 PM

g-yah-dah

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- Lissa Hannah (Lissa) +3

4/6/2005, 9:31 PM

Chef Giada De Laurentiis pronounces her name as Gee-ah-dah.

-Lissa Hannah-
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- Chrisell +2

4/7/2005, 3:57 AM

That's not correct in Italian, though.

:-)

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- Elinor (Elly747)

4/11/2005, 7:45 AM

Agreed. Should definitely be JA-da

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- Lissa Hannah (Lissa)

4/7/2005, 12:54 PM

Maybe she "Americanized" the pronunciation of her name? Or, maybe she, herself, is clueless. LOL. People josh her because she only minored in culinary arts, so maybe she doesn?t know her name, either. :)

- Miss Claire +2

4/6/2005, 8:27 PM

JAH-dah.

~~ Claire ~~

- Jen (guest)

4/7/2005, 5:14 AM

Thanks much - that's what I was trying to write :-)

- Andria

4/7/2005, 2:57 AM

Yep, with the stress on the "jah"

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