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Old 12-16-2003, 06:28 PM
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How do you pronounce Katie's last name?

Mods, please close this thread when I get my answer, thanks! [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

How do you pronounce her last name? - Heigl

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Old 12-16-2003, 06:34 PM
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im pretty sure it's like Hi-gel (like gal with an 'e') No, its more like Hi-gul. As in sea-gull... [img]smilies/lol.gif[/img] wierd way of explaining it but its all i can come up with

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Old 12-17-2003, 10:02 AM
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I've always heard Heigl pronounced Hi-gel, with the "Hi" being pronouned the same as the words "eye" or "skye" or "bye", and the "gel" part pronounced with a hard g, as in "gal" or "good", with the middle vowel like the backwards e one sees in phonoetc pronunciations in dictionaries... the unspecific vowel, for lack of a better word. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] ... Also, the emphasis is on the "Hi" part, as in HI-gel.

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Old 12-18-2003, 04:40 AM
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I don't know for sure, since I have never heard anyone pronounce her name, but I've always pronounced it Heagle, like "eagle" the animal, just with an H before. But what do I know, it might as well be "Hi gal !" but with a schwa (that's the name of the phonetics e) instead of the a.
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Hey everyone [img]smilies/wave.gif[/img] This is an issue which has intrigued me for long, long time [img]smilies/lol.gif[/img]

I think it depends who & where it is pronounced, b/c in the US it always seems to be prounounced "High-Gull" but in the UK, I've heard it being prounced "Hee-Gill"...

Though I'm pretty sure that the correct way is the "High-Gull" way... [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]
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Old 12-21-2003, 10:44 PM
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I have always pronounced it like

He Gil
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I've always heard it as High-Gull, too. It is probably how it's pronounced.
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Old 12-23-2003, 09:48 PM
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Well, I'm pretty sure the pronunciation is as I said above, but someone whose native language is German should confirm it one way or the other. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

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Old 12-25-2003, 06:12 AM
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I pronounce it like: Higll
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[img]smilies/lol.gif[/img] as in... jiggle that wiggle Higgle ? [img]smilies/spank.gif[/img]
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Old 12-26-2003, 05:55 PM
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It is pronounces "Hi-gul". I remember it from something I read or saw with her. She said that she has heard it all but that it the right way of pronouncing it.
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for the record (and to confuse things even further [img]smilies/lol.gif[/img] )...

Seattle Post-Intelligencer, May 15, 2000
Doubtful at first, Heigl now a believer in 'Roswell'


...Then she was persuaded to read the pilot script for "Roswell," a well-crafted sci-fi love story based on the "Roswell High" series of books by Melinda Metz, about teenage aliens trying to survive in a hostile environment -- Earth.
"I read it hesitantly," Heigl recalled.
But the prospect of a steady income and regular weekly exposure is appealing to most young actors, and Heigl gradually warmed to the idea of playing Isabel Evans, one of three orphaned survivors of a UFO crash in Roswell, N.M.
By the time Heigl (pronounced HIGH-gul) had been put through TV's "torturous" audition process, first in front of producers, then in front of network executives, she was so invested in the project that her snobbery had melted under a tide of intense proprietorship. "At that point," she said, "I really wanted it."...


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Venice Magazine, December 1998

Barely 20 years old and with eight feature films to her name, Katherine Heigl, (pronounced Hi-goal), has been gracing movie screens since she was eleven years old, and unless you’ve been living in a cave for the past few years, you’re sure to recognize her recent work.



Both from katherine-heigl.com

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I pronounce it like Hi-gl. I hope I´ll hear the right way soon.
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Quote:
Originally posted by *Pink Lady*:
<STRONG>Hey everyone [img]smilies/wave.gif[/img] This is an issue which has intrigued me for long, long time [img]smilies/lol.gif[/img]

I think it depends who & where it is pronounced, b/c in the US it always seems to be prounounced "High-Gull" but in the UK, I've heard it being prounced "Hee-Gill"...

Though I'm pretty sure that the correct way is the "High-Gull" way... [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]</STRONG>

not poking at you or anything hon, just saying, but i come from the UK but i always say Hi-gul too [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]
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Originally posted by prettylittleroswellian:<STRONG>

not poking at you or anything hon, just saying, but i come from the UK but i always say Hi-gul too [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]</STRONG>
I'm from Ireland so I guess we're pretty close [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] , but people over this side of the Atlantic seem to take the hee-gill route [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

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