how to pronounce gitane

blindjimmy

hi everyone, ive heard gitane pronounced a few different ways, ive been saying jitahnay, but is it jitayn, or guitayn, or is it guitahnay. im betting on the j sound. thanks

sockeye

zhee-tahn. "zh" like the "s" in treasure.

dennis

the worst i ever heard was GUEE TAYN ... terrible... terrible

Carter O`Brien

we hear "GUY-TAN" a lot.

yowch - hurts to even type it!

nwilkins

another funny one is saying Sty-mur instead of Stee-mair for Stimer

guitarnowski

Hi all, I'm new to this site, and just getting serious about adding some Gypsy swing to my pallette of guitaring ( I guess I need 5 bands instead of 4?).

What a BONANZA of information this place is!!! I'll be hanging around here for a bit.

Carter! Haven't seen you since DeadNetCentral! how goes the playing in Chicago, man?

Jack

blindjimmy wrote:

hi everyone, ive heard gitane pronounced a few different ways, ive been saying jitahnay, but is it jitayn, or guitayn, or is it guitahnay. im betting on the j sound. thanks

dennis wrote:

the worst i ever heard was GUEE TAYN ... terrible... terrible

Carter wrote:

we hear "GUY-TAN" a lot.

Nick wrote:

another funny one is saying Sty-mur instead of Stee-mair for Stimer

But we can ALL agree it's Duh-Jango, right?

dennis

duh jango huh? that's how my mom pronounces it....

let's not forget Wegen..... i've heard Wee guen, way guen (which i suppose is acceptable) instead of Vay rrr en

Fopa

Carter O`Brien wrote:

we hear "GUY-TAN" a lot.

yowch - hurts to even type it!

Obviously these people never smoke French cigarettes.

chip3174

Hey any nice folks want to post some pronunciation mp3's?

I'm actually kind of serious about it though...For infant American Gypsies like myself it might be a good thing. Don't want to be thought of as
un-ejumakated ignoraymoose....

Jack

It's been done (in response to an old thread)...
http://raphael.mor.free.fr/GypsyJazz/French/

best,
Jack.