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Question: How do you pronounce GEDCOM!?
Is it with a soft "g" like "JED-com"!? Or a hard "g" like "GEHD-com"!? or maybe you sound out the letters like "jee-ee-dee-com"!? Or something else!?Www@QuestionHome@Com


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pronounced Jedcom as in Genealogy not g as
in get!.
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This is what happens to a language when it intermarries and has numerous illicit affairs over the centuries!.

I, too, go for the "Jed Clampett" or the "George of Jungle" pronunciation!.

Tracing J's, I's, and Y's is even worse!. None of these came with birth certificates, either!.!.!.

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It is pronounced "Jed-com"!.Www@QuestionHome@Com