Bon, oui, Geist est saisissant but Eve’s pronunciation guide is off-track. For certified Canadians, the correct pronunciation of Geist is as follows: GE as in Jeeze, I as in inconvenient, S as in stop (now banned in favour of Arret), T as in termite or terminal illness.
Why? Most Canadians are not Germanic. Canadians are bisensual with a fatal flaw bordering on a devastating, suicidal, multisensual ennui. This cofounder of catalyst 1987—Canada’s most successful but now defunct literary journal, rests his case, encloses a $16 cheque and will instruct his attorneys to insert a new clause in his last will and testament first thing Monday.
Toronto
