Pennies and palatals of yesteryear

[A. Vine]

Beverly Flanigan wrote:
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>
> Interestingly, we have a University colleague named Gagliano who doesn't
> use a velar /g/, but since no one can manage the correct [galjano] he''s
> generally called just [galiano].  I use the Giglioli collection of old
> classics for Soclx (like almost all of you, I suspect), and when I had
> three Italian grad students in three successive years I finally learned how
> to pronounce the editor's name: [Zhiljo:li]--not that I always manage it
> correctly!

Must be dialect.  Standard Italian doesn't have the sound /zh/, rather, it's
/dzh/.
People who learn French before Italian have to have the /zh/ drilled out of
them.

Andrea
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