Gaiman: come si pronuncia?
Subject: how to pronounce "Gaiman"?
From: "B. Nye" <bnye@roadrunner.nf.net>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.neil-gaiman
Date: 26 Jun 1999 19:00:41 GMT
I'm probably a complete idiot, but I can't figure out how Gaiman should be
pronounced...is the "ai" a long A sound or a long I? I sort of thought it
was a long I (I just guessed), but everyone keeps thinking I'm saying Neil
Diamond.
Subject: Re: how to pronounce "Gaiman"?
From: Cleve <cleve@home.com>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.neil-gaiman
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 20:33:46 GMT
B. Nye wrote:
>
> I'm probably a complete idiot, but I can't figure out how Gaiman should be
> pronounced...is the "ai" a long A sound or a long I? I sort of thought it
> was a long I (I just guessed), but everyone keeps thinking I'm saying Neil
> Diamond.
Long A. Rhymes with "laymen".
Not a dumb question. A couple of people in line to see him at the San
Diego Con a few years back said "guy-men." [CRINGE!]
--cleve
Subject: Re: how to pronounce "Gaiman"?
From: Lucy Anne <lucy_anne@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.neil-gaiman
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 18:09:53 -0800
Forgive the formating...I'm back to the good'ol cut and
paste :(
-lucy anne
*****
From the Event Horizon chat last year:
http://www.eventhorizon.com/sfzine/chats/transcripts/102298.
html
badja:
A bit earlier you mentioned the town in Patagonia called
Gaiman. Do you plan to write something about it, or is it
merely a personal interest sort of thing?
NeilGaiman:
It's just a personal interest. I love the idea of Patagonia,
and dammit I want to stand in front of that town sign. (My
family name began life as something unpronounceable in
Poland and became Gaeman, if memory serves, and then my
grandmother fixed it to Gaiman when she married my
grandfather, and felt it looked better that way.) It's
pronounced GAY-m'n, by the way. I hear ever-stranger ways of
pronouncing it these days.
D: Poco fa hai parlato di una città in Patagonia chiamata Gaiman. Pensi di scrivere qualcosa riguardo a questo, o si tratta solo di una specie di interesse personale?
R: E' solo un interesse personale. Mi piace l'idea della Patagonia, e per tutti i diavoli voglio stare davanti al pannello con il nome di quella città. Il mio cognome è nato come qualcosa di impronunciabile in Polonia, e divenne Gaeman, se ben mi ricordo, e poi mia nonna l'ha fissato in Gaiman quando sposò mio nonno, e sentiva che era meglio in quel modo. A proposito, si pronuncia GAY-m'n. Sento sempre strani modi di pronunciarlo, in questi giorni...
