A list of puns related to "J. G. Farrell"
There's a fair number of local German dialects that have a sound change of initial g to j. It's a feature of Berlin German (eg the "the r/Γ¦i/n in Sp/Γ¦i/n" sentence in My Fair Lady was translated to "es /j/rΓΌnt so /j/rΓΌn"*), and it's also a feature of a few other dialects such as the Cologne "dialect" and the surrounding Rhinelander varieties. Those two cities are on the opposite side of Germany so i imagine that there must be other varieties in the "gap" which have this change. I mean I guess it's theoretically possible for it to be independent but proto Germanic *g has essentially the same distribution in the two varieties - initially always j, at the end of words the same as if the word were spelt with "ch" (guten Tag = juten Tach in Berlin), and internally either Ι£ or j depending on the preceding vowel (sagen = saΙ£en and fliegen = fliejen) - so I imagine it's more likely a change that happened for a larger region.
*annoyingly they kept Higgins's name and didn't give him a German name that Eliza would say differently in her dialect - should have called him Gerhard Geiger / "Jerhaad Jeija" or something
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