how do you pronounce Vangelis?
Il Oh
Recently, I heard someone pronounce it with a hard "G". It had never
occurred to me that you might pronounce it that way. Now I'm not sure.
So... which is it?
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Mika O. Latokartano
>I know this sounds stupid. I've been pronouncing with a soft "G" all along.
>Recently, I heard someone pronounce it with a hard "G". It had never
>occurred to me that you might pronounce it that way. Now I'm not sure.
>So... which is it?
I don't know what the correct way to pronounce it is, but I've
heard people pronouncing it with a "G" as in "glue" or "gasp". Vangelis is
a Greek name, so.... Greek, anyone???
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> | last man has run away to the hills"
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Kirk Krauss
Back when "Chariots of Fire" was big on the American pop chart,
Casey Casem pronounced the "g" in Vangelis like the "g" in
tangerine.
Kirk
Nick Rothwell
> I know this sounds stupid. I've been pronouncing with a soft "G" all along.
> Recently, I heard someone pronounce it with a hard "G". It had never
> occurred to me that you might pronounce it that way. Now I'm not sure.
> So... which is it?
VANgelis, emphasis on VAN, hard "G". Abbreviation for Evangelis.
Nick.
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T R Stickland
>Recently, I heard someone pronounce it with a hard "G". It had never
>occurred to me that you might pronounce it that way. Now I'm not sure.
>So... which is it?
hard 'G'
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Gregory Taylor
Sorry, couldn't resist.
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Bill Houle
>VANgelis, emphasis on VAN, hard "G". Abbreviation for Evangelis.
Evangelos Papathanasiou (e-VAN-jell-os papa-thana-SEE-ooo), stage
name Vangelis (van-JELL-is). The emphasis changes when you drop the
prefix.
This is straight from the Greek's mouth, so to speak.
(Not me -- a coworker.)
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The Charlatan
You know folks, I actually asked Jon Anderson one day how you pronounce
Vangelis, and indeed it is a hard g.
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Jerry Stamatopoulos
>I know this sounds stupid. I've been pronouncing with a soft "G" all along.
>Recently, I heard someone pronounce it with a hard "G". It had never
>occurred to me that you might pronounce it that way. Now I'm not sure.
>So... which is it?
It's pronounced von-geh-lees;
von - as in "on" (not "van"),
geh - as in "get",
lees - as in "lease"
with stress on the middle syllable.
Considering Vangelis is Greek for George, you can always call him
George (and Yanni John, for that matter.) :-)
(Boy, how I hate these cutesy smiley faces.)
Jerry S.
Jerry Stamatopoulos
>Considering Vangelis is Greek for George...
Correction: There really isn't a common translation from the Greek
Vangelis to English. What's more, George is not a common translation.
Sorry 'bout that.
Jerry S.
Anastasios Kotsikonas
>In <13...@skye.cs.ed.ac.uk> ni...@cs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) writes:
>>VANgelis, emphasis on VAN, hard "G". Abbreviation for Evangelis.
Hell NO. The accent is on the "ge": vanGElis. The abbreviation is not
for Evangelis but for "Evaggelos" -- notice no 'n' but 'gg' -- with the
accent on the "va".
>Evangelos Papathanasiou (e-VAN-jell-os papa-thana-SEE-ooo), stage
>name Vangelis (van-JELL-is). The emphasis changes when you drop the
>prefix.
In the Greek language there CANNOT be a syllable with 'n' and 'g' next to each
other, BUT "gg" oftentimes is pronounced the same way as you would pronounce
the name "Nguyen", i.e. the 'n' slips in when you try to pronounce "gg"; the
correct pronounciation for "gg" resembles that for the word "geek".
So, the artist chose his name to be spelled with an 'n' and a 'g', but
by no means is the pronounciation "van-jell-is"; a 'g' is a 'g' and not a
'j'.
So the correct pronounciation is "va-gge'-lis".
>This is straight from the Greek's mouth, so to speak.
So is this.
>(Not me -- a coworker.)
Me indeed, not a coworker.
Sincerely,
Anastasios Kotsikonas
PS: How would you pronounce MY name above? Here's some help:
uh-nah-STU-sios kho-tsi-KhO-n-us
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