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[Facts] Re: How to pronounce - Gytha
In modern English speech, a reasonable approximation (not massively faithful to the original period pronunciation as Harold II of England might have used for his daughter but good enough and not too demanding of dexterity with the tongue or grating on modern phonetic sensibilities) would probably be with a G like in "give", a Y like the "i" in "give", a TH like in "truTH", and the two vowel sounds together and general rhythm and stress like in the word "giver". Like "Guy" is just absolutely and horrendously wrong. Pronouncing the letter Y like this is almost unknown outside of modern English, which is very strange compared to how most other languages are written.
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