Talk:Ghent
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[edit] Celtic times
"The city was inhabited in Celtic times." This is meaningless and should be replaced by a date. Piet 14:24, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
Okay, better now, but anyone has an idea of the earliest settlements of which remains have been found? Piet 15:41, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
- For what it is worth, this link mentions: The region of Ghent was settled since the Stone Age and seems to have been inhabited continuously since at least Celtic and Roman times. --Donar Reiskoffer 19:24, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Confluence
The Dutch language article claims that ganda could NOT have meant confluence. The explanation is a bit unclear though. Piet 10:57, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Pronunciation
I know how it's pronunciated, but I don't know IPA well.
- [IPA: xɛnt] is the hard -ch- sound like loch. This is wrong I think.
- Soft g for the Dutch pronunciation. I will trust Donarreiskoffer on this: [IPA: ɣɛ:nt]
- For the English pronunciation, after checking IPA chart for English, I would say [IPA: gɛ:nt] (like go get and gate). Can someone confirm this? Piet 12:37, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
- I changed the Dutch pronunciation from [IPA: ɣɛ:nt] to [IPA: ʝɛ:nt]. They are both correct but the first one is as spoken in the (northern) Netherlands, and the second as in Flanders (and the southern Netherlands). As Ghent is a Flemish city the second variant may be preferred. See also: nl:Zachte g. --Donar Reiskoffer 13:38, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
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- Interesting, I actually thought the hard g was simply [x]. I can't really imagine the three distinct sounds, probably because only two are in the language as I speak and hear it around me. We could add both pronunciations, I don't know what is usual in this case. What do you think for the English IPA pronunciation? It is actually more important since this is the English language wikipedia. Piet 14:30, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
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- wikt:get show us [gɛt]. The vowel sound in Ghent, is longer than in Get so I think your proposal, [IPA: gɛ:nt], is quite right. --Donar Reiskoffer 17:54, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
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I can't read the diacritics used here, but I'd just like to say that the 'g' in Dutch is not pronounced like 'get'. Our 'g' is not a plosive, but a voiced continous fricative pronounced at about the same hight where you'd pronounce [k]. I hope you understand what I mean, it's been a while since I read stuff about pronounciation and I might have mixed up Dutch terms with English ones.
[edit] Mayor
Three people (IP adresses) have now changed the name of the mayor from Frank Beke to Daniël Termont. Let me just state once again that the new mayor (and new council) only starts at January 1st, even though the elections were on October 8th. So please don't change the current mayor to give the name of the future one, however correct that will be. You can have a race on January 1st to be the first to change it again though, I won't revert it then anymore ;-) Fram 15:06, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] twin cities
I changed the twin cities,as Des Moines and Miami are NOT twin cities of Ghent. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 212.123.26.150 (talk) 14:42, 30 January 2007 (UTC).
