Georgiana

[sandtree.livejournal.com]

How do you pronounce the name 'Georgiana'?

jor-JAY-nuh?

jor-JYAH-nuh?

jor-jee-YAH-nuh?

Something else?

Just curious, because I've heard it pronounced all three ways, though I like the first pronunciation the best.

Comments

[beepandetch.livejournal.com]

At first glance I thought it was Jor-gee-nah but then I looked at it more closely and I would pronounce it Jor-gee-ah-na.

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

Jor-JAH-nah for me :)
Like Georgia (the state) + nah

[brittmarie.livejournal.com]

Georgiana is jor-jee-YAH-nuh.

Georgina is jor-jee-nuh.

I've never heard the first two pronunciations and they sound awful.

[laminy.livejournal.com]

In The Duchess, it was pronounced jor-JAY-nuh. I don't like any of those pronunciations though, so I say jor-gee-ah-nuh. I don't plan on using it, so I don't have to worry about saying it correctly. I think that jor-JAY-nuh is the correct one though.

[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

Jor-JAH-nah. That's how I pronounce it.

I really lik the Jor-Jay-nah pronunciation.

[daydream11.livejournal.com]

jor-jee-YAH-nuh

[rubytitania.livejournal.com]

The third one.

[cremepuff.livejournal.com]

Wow, my brain always read it as Jor-jee-YANN-ah or Jor-JANNAH. I guess I was mistaken. :)

[bandnerd88.livejournal.com]

I say it jor-jee-AH-nah.

[lilacmermaid.livejournal.com]

I've heard both Jor-JYAH-nuh and Jor-jee-AH-nuh. The first one is how the character Georgiana in Pride and Prejudice gets pronounced. But they're kind of the same thing, just said at different speeds.

If I wasn't familiar with P&P, I think my first inclination would be to pronounce it Jor-jee-AN-nuh.

I've never heard Jor-JAY-nuh, but I don't like it. There's no reason from the way that the name is spelled to be pronouncing it like that.

[snailrevolution.livejournal.com]

I say it jor-JYAH-nuh.

[sageharper.livejournal.com]

jor-jee-are-nuh
The fourth option then, I suppose. At least that's how it sounded in the Pride & Prejudice film.

[aquilinum.livejournal.com]

Heh... non-North American alert!

[sageharper.livejournal.com]

LOL shockingly yes :)
Not even north-anywhere in fact. Is it really so obvious? ;)

[aquilinum.livejournal.com]

Yes! In North America (i.e. USA + Canada), the R in the word "are" is pronounced, like a consonant. Most Scots and Irish people pronounce it as well. You know the R sound your tongue makes in the word "errand"? It's THAT sound. A real Arrrrr.

In England, Australia, Wales, and New Zealand, it's silent and like an "ah" sound.

If an American reads your description of jor-jee-are-nuh, they're going to say it in their heads or out loud as something VERY VERY different to what you meant to convey!

[how-obscure.livejournal.com]

I say jor-jee-YAH-nuh. I think sometimes it comes out more like jor-JYAH-nuh, but they seem like pretty much the same thing only the second way is said more quickly so the sounds run together more.

Jor-JAY-nuh sounds kind of neat, but it sounds like it should be a different name to me.

[sageharper.livejournal.com]

Hmm that makes sense.

Writing it out can be difficult. I think we'll be better off break out youtube videos or something for better illustration of the point, so ...
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=gtIuannA1VU
(at 1:23)

[taraemily.livejournal.com]

jor-jee-ah-nuh

[la-jolie-vie.livejournal.com]

Jor-Jee-On-Uh ... I tend to not add a "y" when I say the sound "ah" in the middle of a word, if that makes sense.

[memorymaze.livejournal.com]

This.

[arbus.livejournal.com]

georgie-ana

which i guess would be:

jor-jee-ah-na ?

[ifancylust.livejournal.com]

i would pronounce it the last way: jor-jee-YAH-nuh (rhyming with donna) or jor-jee-ANN-nuh (rhyming with anna).

[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

*dislike. Woah. I don't know where my head was when I was typing that comment.

[unmowngrass.livejournal.com]

Me too.