|Subject:||Re: British pronunciation of Georgia?|
|Author:||Anneza (Authenticated as Anneza)|
|Date:||March 6, 2012 at 5:16:54 AM|
|Reply to:||British pronunciation of Georgia? by Just Jonquil|
I think that phonetically the g+i (and g+e) work together to make a j sound. So the i (and the e) isn't sounded as a separate vowel, but it still earns its keep by modifying the consonant.
Your Julia reference makes totally no sense at all! Oxford must have been smoking its learned socks ...
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