Message: "Re: Gerald" - Behind the Name

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Re: Gerald

by 78faba

9/29/2008, 2:37 PM

in reply to a message by Llewella

I'm from Germany and i pronounce it GER- ald.

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- Llewella (penguiny7) +1

9/29/2008, 3:28 PM

Thanks! The family is from Germany, so that could be why they pronounced it that way. Now that I think about it, that's how it would be pronounced in German, right? I don't really know German.

- Murasaki (lady murasaki)

10/10/2008, 10:59 AM

I've also heard the pronounciation with the hard "g", I think it's the normal one in Germanic languages.

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