Gillywater

[zanooda2]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister" 
<gbannister10 at ...> wrote:
 
> The syllable "GIll" is an interesting one in terms of hard or soft 
> pronunciation. The girl's name Gillian has a soft "g" - which gives 
> rise to the variant spelling "Jill" and there is an old volume 
> measurement "gill" = half a pint which is soft.
> 
> The oddest one is that there are two towns of Gillingham, one in Kent 
> and the other in Dorset. The former has a soft "g", the latter hard.


zanooda:

Oh yeah, this "g" thing is very confusing indeed :-). Why is it "gift", 
but "giant"? Why is it "give", but "ginger"? There is no logic in this 
at all :-).