Magloire GONTHIER in St. Gervais, Magloire GAUTHIER in St. Jean sur Richelieu c. 1849
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Re: GONTHIER in St. Gervais / GAUTHIER in St. Jean sur Richelieu c. 1849
 gauthdanrich
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Posted: 28 Jun 2008 11:41PM GMT |
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Dear Bob,
The two nouns are very similar. The accent of the French spoken in StJeann (well I don't know then of course) is a bit ''through the nose'', say like Celine Dion when speaking French... Since at that time so many people could not write... and the pronunciation of Gonthier being very near Gauthier (spoken through the nose) the one writing and hearing ''Gon'' might have got ''Gau''... and wrote it down on a paper as it happens a lot with names through history... Well, this is just a theory.
Gon is like Gone without the e
Gau is like Go without the a-o you put in Go in English more like throw
Yours,
Gauthdanrich
The two nouns are very similar. The accent of the French spoken in StJeann (well I don't know then of course) is a bit ''through the nose'', say like Celine Dion when speaking French... Since at that time so many people could not write... and the pronunciation of Gonthier being very near Gauthier (spoken through the nose) the one writing and hearing ''Gon'' might have got ''Gau''... and wrote it down on a paper as it happens a lot with names through history... Well, this is just a theory.
Gon is like Gone without the e
Gau is like Go without the a-o you put in Go in English more like throw
Yours,
Gauthdanrich