Georgiana pronunciation

[PrimroseWharf]

How would you pronounce Georgiana? And where are you located? We are in NW England. I would say Jor-Jaynah but DH says Jor-Jee-Arnah. I like both pronunciations but would prefer to use the ‘correct’ one. This is only for a middle name so not the end of the world if people mispronounce. So how would you say it?

Jor-Jee-Arnah
Jor-Jee-Anna
Jor-Jaynah

Something else entirely?

Thanks!

that is an excellent impression of Miss Caroline Bingley

DH had a great-aunt with the name. She pronounced it Georgie-anna (anna with a short "a", none of this ahna business). She was in the northern US.

But I do like the George-jane-a (as in Duchess of Devonshire) pronunciation.

In some English accents the r in car is not sounded, resulting in car being pronounced something like cah or caah, to rhyme with fa or la as in the song Do a deer from The sound of music, or the film La La Land. They also pronounce the ca in castle with a long a to rhyme with la/fa, but as it is the same sound in their accent as car, they type the pronunciation as CAR. Those who sound the r in car would likely type cah.

I also say cassle but know many people, mostly south east English people, who say caah-sull with a long a. When they type car they don't mean they sound /roll r in any way, they're indicating they use a long a not a short a

I agree with you.

I was just trying to explain why it sounds peculiar (and wrong).

And that's because in "car-sell" the "E" is much stronger than the way you'd actually pronounce it (like in gristle).

George-gee-anna

Nobody pronounces it "car-sell" — it'll be cassle or cah-ssle depending on how you sound your a.

But if you had to write the "ssle" sound down with different letters it would be closer to "sull" than "sell" (but it's really a schwa, like at the beginning of "around").

I bet half the people on this thread crying over the 'R' sound being added say castle like CAR-SELL anyway.

But exactly those of us 'crying' over the R sound being added do NOT say Car sell as we would pronounce the R!

Jor jay Anna

Scotland

This was one of our top names for a girl (but my husband only does boys!) We would say 'Jorjahna'

Sorry missed out a y. 'Jorjyahna''

Jor-Jee-Arnah

Jor-Jana

Love the name Georgiana!!

I’m from the SE, pronounce an R in Castle and glass like glarse. I would say Jaw-gee-arna
however I also love the Cavendish jaw-jayne-ah pronunciation

Jor-Jee-Anna

The Anna sounding more like Anna from Frozen than the typical U.K. pronunciation.

Jor-Jee-Arnah