G-gem gib or g-golf -gib?

[Dod MoleParticipant @georgeclarihew]

Engllish American is even more fun

A boot on the pavement or is it a fender on the sidewalk, both intelligible to us, then comes along solder or sauder

[Sam StonesParticipant @samstones42903]

“What’s this?” said our primary school teacher holding up a reddish orange piece of fruit. It was back in the mid-forties when food in Britain was still rationed and lacking variety.

Being a smart seven year old, I knew the answer immediately.

“It’s a tamaydah!” I called out with confidence, having heard of them either on the radio or via a black and white film (movie) featuring Bob Hope and Lou Costello.

It was actually a pomegranate not an American tomato.

I’d go for hard ‘G’ as in ‘gib me cookies’.

Sam

[Mike PooleParticipant @mikepoole82104]

A friends mother brought a banana to school for him as they were a bit rare, he said thank you and put it it in his pocket, he had never seen one before and didn’t realise it was a tasty snack.

Mike

[Dave MartinParticipant @davemartin29320]

Posted by Frances IoM on 08/10/2018 14:03:39:
except on IoM where in previous centuries could written as Killey – derives from Manx for servant (think of Scots Ghillie)

Frances, agree re Manx folk being comfortable with Gill Gill !

Re your suggestions on the Killey surname:

For those not from or familiar with the Isle of Man, It is not pronounced “Kill ee” like Kelly. Killey is pronounced “Kill” followed by a short “y” as in yacht or you; some older Manx folk pronounced a longer “y” so it sounded like “Kill yer”.

In terms of its derivation, Killey, like most of the Manx surnames that start with C, K or Q, have their roots in the “son of” Mac prefix; in the case of Killey the root patronymic suggested (AW Moore and JJ Kneen) is Gale, Gell, Gill, Kill or Kelly.

Dave

[VicParticipant @vic]

It’s a soft G for me as in George and Gibraltar. The Americans normally get things wrong so they of course pronounce it with a hard G like Golf!

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