[Ads-l] "gee" with a hard "g"

[Barretts Mail]

About 17 minutes into “Dances with Wolves,” Timmons says “gee” to his horses multiple times. It’s difficult to hear him, but it seemed to me he said it with a hard “g” each time.

Lexico, Merriam-Webster, and Wiktionary all have a soft “g”. 

The script is at http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/d/dances-with-wolves-script-transcript.html <http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/d/dances-with-wolves-script-transcript.html>. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYLzV5JG9eI <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYLzV5JG9eI> is close to the scene, but Timmons says only “haw.”

Benjamin Barrett (he/his/hi)
Formerly of Seattle, WA
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