kit2d ago
How do you pronounce "Ged", known as Sparrowhawk?
Hard G as in Gershwin
Soft G as in Gerald
Something Y-ish as in Göteborg
Secret 4th option
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Show threaddatarama

@hypostase I unfortunately cannot help but pronounce it as the Danish word for "goat".

(Hard g, and the weird soft d that AFAIK only exists in Danish.)

Apr 4 at 11:14amWeb
Show threadkit2d ago
@datarama cool. Of course now my mouth is going to be making weird shapes for the rest of the day, as it tries to figure out how that works. It does that.
Show threaddatarama2d ago

@hypostase The most infamous Danish tongue-twister that we have foreigners try to pronounce is "rød grød med fløde" ("red porridge with cream") - you can probably find someone saying it on Youtube or the like. :-)

When I was learning Russian, I spent quite some time trying to get my mouth into the correct shape for properly pronouncing "ы".