[Mageia-discuss] Pronunciation

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:05:53 +0100
Maarten Vanraes <alien at rmail.be> wrote:

> Op maandag 20 februari 2012 16:31:19 schreef Antoine Pitrou:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:18:46 -0500
> > 
> > imnotpc <imnotpc at Rock3d.net> 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"

I wanted to make it phonetically readable by a native English speaker :)

Regards

Antoine.