Gelett Burgess

[Laurence Horn]

>My guess would be a soft g (when I say it to myself

...especially while shaving...

>, 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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>>Subject:      Gelett Burgess
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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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