On 2021-02-14 5:25 p.m., Ken Blake wrote:
On 2/14/2021 12:43 PM, Peter Duncanson [BrE] wrote:
On Sun, 14 Feb 2021 11:48:56 -0700, Ken Blake
wrote:

On 2/14/2021 10:00 AM, Quinn C wrote:
* micky:

Jack and Gill
Went up the hill
To fetch a pail of water
Jack fell down

Â*Â* and proceeded to drown,
Â*Â* but her gills saved Gill from slaughter.

Sorry, not used to the spelling "Gill".


It's always been "Jack and Jill" to me. Oddly, it' spelled "Jill" in
the subject line, but "Gill" in the text.

Since the well-known word for a fish's breathing organ is "gill,"
pronounced with a hard "g," when I saw "Jack and Gill, I wanted to
also pronounce "Gill" with a hard "g."

Gill, pronounced Jill, may be short for Gillian.


I thought Gillian was pronounced with a hard G, so I just went to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yNdPOg-5JM

According to that site, it has a hard G everywhere but in the UK.


Well, that can't be 100% accurate. I know a Canadian Gillian who
pronounces her name with a soft G.

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Cheryl