How to pronounce Gayetty

[Maki Miyazaki]

Dear all,

Could anybody tell me how to pronounce （how to write in カタカナ）
Gayetty ?

It's a name of the inventor of toilet paper.


TIA,

Maki Miyazaki
Shibuya, Tokyo

[Friedemann Horn]

http://www.google.de/search?q=%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%82%BB%E3%83%95%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AB%E3%82%A8%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3

Friedemann Horn
www.horn-uchida.jp

2010/9/16 Maki Miyazaki <fwge...@mb.infoweb.ne.jp>:

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[Mark Spahn]

A quick interwebs search finds that Joseph Gayetty invented
commercial toilet paper in 1857 but does not tell how he
pronounced his name. So going only by the spelling, I would
take the pronunciation to be gay-YETT-ee (ゲイイェツティ).
Or possibly it is guh-YETT-ee (ガイェツティ), which suggests
an abominable-snowman yeti galumphing across the
Himalayan highlands.
-- Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY)

[Mark Spahn]

> http://www.google.de/search?q=%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%82%BB%E3%83%95%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AB%E3%82%A8%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3
> > Friedemann Horn

Wow, that's a surprise: that the first syllable of
Gayetty is pronounced with a K sound, not a G sound.
But this is evidence that the Ka pronunciation exists,
not that it is correct. When I changed the first katakana
of the surname to Ga, I did not get Joseph Gayetty
but a different person (a baseball player).
It is strange that "Ga"would ever be katakanaized as カ.

[Maki Miyazaki]

Yes! So I was confused when I searched internet and asked here.
But is it really correct to write this name as カエティ!?

Maki Miyazaki
Shibuya, Tokyo

On 9月17日, 午前5:25, "Mark Spahn" <marksp...@verizon.net> wrote:
> >http://www.google.de/search?q=%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%82%BB%E3%83%95%E3...