Glenn

[Odessa Dawn]

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How do we pronounce Glenn? Which one should I pick up /glen/or /glən/?

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[5jj]

It's /glen/ (in standard Britsh phonological symbols). It rhymes with pen, men, den, etc.

 

[BobK]

:up: In Br English you can't have a schwa in a stressed syllable, and there's no way you can remove the stress from a monosyllable when it's a name- it'd be hard to remove the stress from 'glen' but impossible to remove it from 'Glenn'.

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[Route21]

:up: In Br English you can't have a schwa in a stressed syllable, and there's no way you can remove the stress from a monosyllable when it's a name- it'd be hard to remove the stress from 'glen' but impossible to remove it from 'Glenn'.
b

I've just found out what a "schwa" is.
Looks like I'm improving - slowly! ;-)
Cheers!
R21