G-gem gib or g-golf -gib?

In my fifty odd years in machine tools, with contacts both here in the UK and abroad, always used and heard with a hard g. Although use of a gib is now reducing as we use linear ways more.

G-gem gib or g-golf -gib?...

...No one knows.

As I said, sometimes you just can't win!

Jorjineer

Your brother may be a gem but generalising gentlemen making gigantic mistakes must go to gaol. As punishment, he shall there remove the giblets from a giant ginger giraffe using German gelignite.

The English language is endless fun.

Dave

Engllish American is even more fun

A boot on the pavement or is it a fender on the sidewalk, both intelligible to us, then comes along solder or sauder

“What’s this?” said our primary school teacher holding up a reddish orange piece of fruit. It was back in the mid-forties when food in Britain was still rationed and lacking variety.

Being a smart seven year old, I knew the answer immediately.

“It’s a tamaydah!” I called out with confidence, having heard of them either on the radio or via a black and white film (movie) featuring Bob Hope and Lou Costello.

It was actually a pomegranate not an American tomato.

I’d go for hard ‘G’ as in ‘gib me cookies’.

Sam

A friends mother brought a banana to school for him as they were a bit rare, he said thank you and put it it in his pocket, he had never seen one before and didn’t realise it was a tasty snack.

Mike

Frances, agree re Manx folk being comfortable with Gill Gill !

Re your suggestions on the Killey surname:

For those not from or familiar with the Isle of Man, It is not pronounced “Kill ee” like Kelly. Killey is pronounced “Kill” followed by a short “y” as in yacht or you; some older Manx folk pronounced a longer “y” so it sounded like “Kill yer”.

In terms of its derivation, Killey, like most of the Manx surnames that start with C, K or Q, have their roots in the “son of” Mac prefix; in the case of Killey the root patronymic suggested (AW Moore and JJ Kneen) is Gale, Gell, Gill, Kill or Kelly.

Dave

It’s a soft G for me as in George and Gibraltar. The Americans normally get things wrong so they of course pronounce it with a hard G like Golf!