Op maandag 20 februari 2012 16:31:19 schreef Antoine Pitrou: > Hello, > > On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:18:46 -0500 > > imnotpc <[email protected]> wrote: > > I would like to talk to others about my experiences with Mageia, but I'm > > not sure how to pronounce the name. Is the 'g' soft, as in the American > > English pronunciation of 'magic', or is it a hard 'g' like 'gate'? The > > dictionaries seem to indicate the latter but I'd like to hear it from > > the horse's mouth, so to speak. > > Though French, I would myself pronounce it hard (because that's how I > imagine it being said in Greek :-)). > > "Ma-gay-ah". > > Regards > > Antoine.
no offense, but if you'd split it up, you'd have to go for: "Ma-ge-yah" as a belgian, i pronounce it different again, i think, even though similar to your pronounciation: the g is the one you use in 'gear' but the 'e' sounds is more like in 'geisha'.
