Bene Gesserit (was Re: wierd IS a compliment...)

From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sun May 07 2000 - 21:25:32 MDT


At 09:34 PM 7/05/00 EDT, Ron wrote:

>Anybody have any idea how to pronounce "Bene Gesserit"?

The first bit is obviously BEN-ay. Frank Herbert once told me the second
part is a kind of pun on Jesuit (as is the Sisterhood), and so should sound
rather like that:

JESS-uh-rit.

Damien



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