I’ve had the happy experience of “finding” books by Elizabeth Goudge by chance when I was browsing through the shelves of my local library. She has become one of my favourite authors. I would like to be certain that I am pronouncing her name correctly Could you e-mail the pronunciation of her name to me? I have been pronouncing it “gooj.” Thank you for your help.
Elaine Douglas
Hi Elaine
Your email got me thinking.
I don’t think you are that far off the correct pronunciation, its pronounced Goog the g sounding like the g in Giraffe, Geranium , rather than j as in jar The d is silent.
Does that help?
regards Deborah
The question is how the vowel sound is pronounced. Does it rhyme with stooge, or with budge, or is it like the ou in could?
It is pronounced to rhyme with stooge