Last name


I vaguely remember watching this movie once, but what I want to know is if anyone can tell me where they got the name for Gwyneth Paltrow's character... my last name is Jannello, and it's not that common, so I'm left to ponder...

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Nobody believes in that crap about moons and goochers!

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I'm not sure where they got it but it sounds possibly Italian.

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It's not Italian because the letter J is not in the Italian
alphabet, in Italian it would be Gianello

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I don't know if Janello is an Italian surname. What I do know is that, even though the letter J is not used anymore in *contemporary* Italian, it was widely used until a few generations ago (it was pronounced like the German J rather than the English J, i.e. in our case something like "yanello").

In fact, there are plenty of Italian surnames starting with J.

Anyway the film was not that great...

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No one cares what you think about the movie moron. This thread is about the female leads last name.

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That's what I've always thought--that it can't be Italian because Italian doesn't use the letter J. Jon Bon Jovi's last name is correctly spelled Bongiovi.

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