jeanne?

[ifancylust.livejournal.com]

how do you pronounce jeanne?

i've heard it pronounced 3 different ways:
1. jeen
2. jee-nee
3. jee-ann

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[wistfuljen.livejournal.com]

2. jee-nee.

[arbus.livejournal.com]

normally i would pronounce it jeen, but theres a woman i work with who spells her name that way and pronounces it jee-nee. so im kind of on the fence i guess.

[freezemyazaleas.livejournal.com]

Jeen.

[how-obscure.livejournal.com]

1. Jeen
Part of me also kind of wants to put the French "j" sound on it. Don't know why. *shrugs*

[traecrochet.livejournal.com]

Its my middle name. I pronounce it just like Jean.

[mrsbenglish.livejournal.com]

It's Jean (Jeen)... it's how my husband's mother spells her name.

It's the traditional french way for women to spell Jeanne, but Jean is the masculine spelling.

[sleepy-tears7.livejournal.com]

The first thing out of my mouth was Jee-ann, but a second after that I thought "maybe its jeen

[skittles22088.livejournal.com]

It's my middle name, too, and I pronounce it like jeen. My mom told me she mixed both my grandmothers' names (Jeannine and Jeanette).

[lovetokate.livejournal.com]

I can't even begin to try and spell this out phonetically...but I pronounce it as the French "Jeanne." I went to HS with a girl that had that spelling and that's how she pronounced it. Plus, my area of LA is particularly French/Cajun.

[aimeewins.livejournal.com]

Jeen. my great-aunt was Emma Jeanne and pronounced it this way.

[chirpygirly.livejournal.com]

Jeen, though I too know of a woman who prn. it like 'jee-nee', which I'll never get. Maybe with 'ie' on the end, even then it's a stretch. =/

[ifancylust.livejournal.com]

i've never seen it spelled jeanne for the french one--only jean, unless there's a feminine version i've never heard of.

[sandtree.livejournal.com]

ZHAN.

[lind-saay.livejournal.com]

I say Jee-nee.

[lilacmermaid.livejournal.com]

None of the above ... I'd pronounce it the French way, so it's kind of like Jan, but the J is a Zh sound, like the second G in garage.

[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

Same here. I should mention that I'm living in Europe, though.

[lilacmermaid.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I live in Canada, near Quebec, so I definitely have the French influence from that. But I still think I would pronounce it that way, if that's how it was spelled.

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

DJAH-n, like in French.
In English, Jeen.

[meggypeggy1.livejournal.com]

I have a friend with this name, and she pronounces it jee-nee.

[twitchywoman.livejournal.com]

jeen. My middle name is Jeane and that's how it is said. jee-nee would be spelled Jeannie to me.

[laminy.livejournal.com]

Je-neen. But I am obviously wrong. I've never seen it any of those ways before.

[snailrevolution.livejournal.com]

My aunt pronounces it "jee-nee," and my boyfriend;s grandmother pronounced it "jean."

When I see it I'm inclined to say it "jee-nee."

[clementine-tea.livejournal.com]

my aunt pronounces is jee-nee, and shes dutch, not sure if that makes a difference.