Pronunciation of "gonne"

[BillinOregon]

I've seen some hand gonne videos where the guy pronounces it "gun-ay." Kinda hilarious. Do you say "The Rifle Shop-ay"? The Apothecary Shop-ay? He hath the wind-ay on his guts?" Let us go a-fyshing-ay?
The mispronouncers do it tentatively, just in case they are full of wind-ay.

 

[Frontstuffer070]

That's funny right there. I don't have any idea how to pronounce it. Is it a GONE, GUNNY, GONG, GUN-UH. Beats me. I like hand cannon myself.

 

[BillinOregon]

Just "gun."

 

[The Miner '49er]

Well I pronounce it "hand gun-uh" to differentiate from "handgun". Gotta go, wife wants to know if I want toe-may-toe or toe-mah-toe on my salad.

 

[wiscoaster]

I spent some time googling to try to find a Middle English / archaic pronounciation of the word "gonne". Total frustration. Best I could come up with is that the proper modern English pronounciation is "gun".

 

[TobJohn]

isn’t the non silent E at the end of words in English almost all loan words from French or other Romance languages? It would depend on what language “gonne” comes from. Wikipedia states that “gun” in English and “gonne” in Latin are around the same period, so that’s confusing.

 

[kh54]

Go boom thing.

 

[The Crisco Kid]

As the Canadians would say, "It's a gun, eh".

 

[rickystl]

I pronounce it hand-gone - just like the regular word "gone".

 

[TobJohn]

I pronounce it hand-gone - just like the regular word "gone".

Same. Regardless of historical correct pronunciation, it provides valuable clarity to not confuse the conversation with “handguns”

 

[TFoley]

I pronounce it hand-gone - just like the regular word "gone".

The 'e' is put there in Middle English so that the word is pronounced with a hard 'n' - as in 'gonn'. With Middle English still finding its way out of Norman French - see how Chaucer writes, for examples of both - without that double 'n' and its attendant 'e', it would be pronounced in the same way as the modern French for ham, 'jambon', with the silent/nasalised 'n'

 

[wiscoaster]

The 'e' is put there in Middle English so that the word is pronounced with a hard 'n' - as in 'gonn'. With Middle English still finding its way out of Norman French - see how Chaucer writes, for examples of both - without that double 'n' and its attendant 'e', it would be pronounced in the same way as the modern French for ham, 'jambon', with the silent/nasalised 'n'

Makes sense to me.

 

[BillinOregon]

Our dear friend, linguist and polyglot Terry to the rescue once again.

 

[Rudyard]

I've seen some hand gonne videos where the guy pronounces it "gun-ay." Kinda hilarious. Do you say "The Rifle Shop-ay"? The Apothecary Shop-ay? He hath the wind-ay on his guts?" Let us go a-fyshing-ay?
The mispronouncers do it tentatively, just in case they are full of wind-ay.

Ide say' Gonne' like not here but No body alive could be sure or argue different .
Rudyard's guess

 

[Omahkapi'si]

Speaking of naming your guns, Gonne Rhea is kind of pretty.

 

[Adam in WI]

Yeah, just like Thunder Clap

 

[TFoley]

By your goode grayse, I prithee assay thysse poetrie by William de Bailie, a welle-belovéd and meist populeare artiste of grate worthienesse -

 

[Colonial Boy]

Speaking of naming your guns, Gonne Rhea is kind of pretty.

Also socially unacceptable.

 

[oldwood]

Back in 1974 , I met a , from then on , life long friend. Fred was a mixture of hill billy , Pa. German , spoke Pa. Dutcha/English mixed. I was amused and sorta challenged when he referred to a Pa. longrifle as a Rafflegonne. I wsn't sure if he had won the piece in a raffle , or was going to donate it to some fundraiser for an organization. My mental decoder finally kicked in , and bingo , he was speaking of a longrifle.

 

[Flint62Smoothie]

I pronounce it hand-gone - just like the regular word "gone".

^^^^ This ^^^^ , but with 2 n's, roll out the 'n' a tad longer, LOL