Gelett Burgess

[Joel S. Berson]

My guess would be a soft g (when I say it to myself, a hard g sounds
wrong), but any experience of mine hearing the name is so long ago I
couldn't swear.

Joel

At 10/26/2005 05:59 AM, you wrote:
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>A rather off-topic question, but I'm about to speak rather than write
>about the humorist Gelett Burgess and realised that I'm not sure how to
>pronounce his first name. My guess would be a hard "g". Would I be right?
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