# "Gabaldon" pronunciation?

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**Created:** [February 12, 2016, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gabaldon-pronunciation/745971 "2016-02-12T21:31:45Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 12, 2016, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gabaldon-pronunciation/745971/1 "2016-02-12T21:31:45Z")

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Recently **Mrs. R** has been ploughing through the Outlander series of books, by Diana Gabaldon. They don’t interest me at all, except that every time I glance at a cover, I wonder:

“GAB-ul-dun” or “Guh-BALL-dun”?

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**Post date:** [February 12, 2016, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gabaldon-pronunciation/745971/2 "2016-02-12T21:40:36Z")

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The name is Spanish, and has an accent on the third syllable. Also, a long “O”.

GAH-bal-_ **DOAN** _

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**Post date:** [February 12, 2016, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gabaldon-pronunciation/745971/3 "2016-02-12T21:49:40Z")

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As Mrs. Gabaldon would tell you, it rhymes with “bad-to-the-BONE.”

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**Post date:** [February 12, 2016, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gabaldon-pronunciation/745971/4 "2016-02-12T21:50:55Z")

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Season 2 premiers April 9. Starz will be showing marathons, if you’d like to see what has your wife all hot and bothered.

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**Post date:** [February 12, 2016, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gabaldon-pronunciation/745971/5 "2016-02-12T21:57:46Z")

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My 2nd grade teacher was Mrs. Gabaldon, and she pronounced it the second way (stress on the second syllable).