To ask Welsh mumsnetters how to pronounce Geraint

[BoysofMelody]

We've been watching the opening stages of the Tour de France and have been thrilled by Geraint Thomas's exploits. However minor marital disharmony has broken out on how to pronounce Mr Thomas's name.

I pronounce it Gerrint to rhyme with Pint.

My wife is adamant it is pronounced Gerroint to rhyme with point.

Which of us (if either) is right?

Rhyme with pint

'Gare-aint' I would say.

There is a person on the news with this name and that is how it's pronounced on there.

My friend at uni used to pronounce it ger-int with the int as in pint and the g as a hard g so a hard g, e like the start of errant and then int like the end of pint.

See if that helps.

Your are right -rhymes with pint.
However- and this is where English speakers really struggle with this name- the emphasis is on the first not second syllable. GER-raint.
(Fluent welshy)

Yep that video is how I would say it (not Welsh but live in Wales)

I agree with Frazzled. I heard a newsreader last night say guhRINT (very short guh, and emphasis on rint) and it sounded awful! The emphasis should be on the ger (not guh) and the rint should rhyme with a pint of milk.

Gerrint to rhyme with pint

Welsh through and through

You are.

Fluent speaker here - definitely rhymes with pint and yes, emphasis on the first syllable

Awful name!

GER (rhymes with air) int (rhymes with pint), stress on first syllable.

I've never heard it pronounced how your DW is suggesting (Wales born)

Agree with others, you're right it rhymes with 'pint'. Welsh, unlike English, is a 'say it how you see it' language.

Grrrr-ain't

That's how the only one I know used to say it. He wasn't Welsh though.

Neither, I'd say GER-aint to rhyme with saint

Gerr-aynt

BeepBeepMOVE I've never heard it pronounce like that before , what makes you think it rhymes with 'saint'?

Gerrr-aint to rhyme with paint.

Definitely stress on the GER and int as in pint.

Thanks everyone. My wife's brother in law is Welsh born, but lived in England since being a toddler . He has an an Uncle Geraint, and he pronounces it Gerroint (he's got a strong cockney accent) and she's taken her cue from him.

It is nice to be proved right for once! I shall be insufferably smug all this evening!

I'm not Welsh but know someone called Geraint - his wife told me to rhyme it with pint (Ger-rint, emphasis on second syllable).

I'm not convinced I ever got it right though because he used to piss himself laughing whenever I said it.

Ger as in Gerroff!
aint as the int in pint.
Stress on the Ger bit.

Lovely name.

Gehr-roiwnt (emphasis on the 'gehr'). I'm South Welshy though and suspect that it might be pronounced slightly differently oop North Wales.

Just don't pronounce it "Grunt" as I heard an English person do once!

Definitely doesn't rhyme with paint!

Geh-rrrrrrr-int as in pint.

First language Welsh speaker who knows and is related to many Geraints here, so I can be trusted on this.

yep like the video linked to, although only the very Welsh would roll the r as much in the middle!