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>Last night the bib and bub presenters reported and I
>quote, "Guh nin nin will have to lay off half its
>Townsville work force because it did not win a 110
>million dollar loco contract, which was won by a
>Southern firm".
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>Guh-nin-nin.!!! I would have thought Goninan was
>pronounced "Gone-in-nan".?
Within the limits of our trying to do pronunciations with
ordinary alphabet letters, "Guh-nin-an" seems pretty
close, with the stress predominantly on the second syllable.
The first syllable isn't really "guh", but rather just "g" as in
a hard consonant without any associated vowel, almost
as though it was spelt Gninan and you had to pronounce the g
separately from the n.
Eddie Oliver