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It's pronounced "JI-S-LAINE". News announcers can't seem to get it right.

• catalogia 6y ago
  Is this 'S' in this pronounced like the letter "S", e.g. "ess"? It's not clear to me from this explanation how her name is pronounced.
  • davidivadavid 6y ago
    The S in Ghislaine (in French) is silent (ghee-laine), even though people these days use a pronunciation that is closer to the spelling (jiss-laine).
    • jobigoud 6y ago
      I'm in France and I only ever heard it pronounced "jisslaine". Although we had a friend called that and we used to nickname her "jilou".
      • davidivadavid 6y ago
        It's common for people not to know the "proper" pronunciation of the name. For a well-known example, you might have heard of the infamous case of Ghislaine Marchal. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affaire_Omar_Raddad#Ghislaine_Marchal https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affaire_Omar_Raddad#Ghislaine_...
• AndrewOMartin 6y ago
  To clarify, it's pronounced GI-slaine as in GIF.
  • andybak 6y ago
    I see what you did there.
• davidivadavid 6y ago
  That's really not how that name is traditionally pronounced (even though people do say it that way these days).
• DanBC 6y ago
  That's the correct French pronunciation, but it's not how she pronounces it. She uses a silent S.