Tracy Johnson wrote:
>
> In reference to my earlier post where I managed to express how I heard
> it. I forgot that in the Egyptian dialect of Arabic they do not have
> an equivalent of the soft "j" sound (as in Jeff Kell).  They always
> pronounce what the rest of the Arabic speaking world uses for "j" with
> a hard "g" sound, like "Golf".

I dunno about arabic, but when I go to Mexico you should hear some of
the pronunciations of my name due to the hispanic 'j' and 'll'.  It is
bad enough when I tell them my name (the soft J) but really interesting
when someone reads my name without hearing it first.

Heff Keeyy.., um Keeya.., um, Senor Heff <[log in to unmask]>