- The shirt says, “The g is silent.”
As people in the know know, you don’t pronounce the “g” in Pagliacci. For years, it was just a thing you had to find out from people who knew Italian. For years, I tried to exert self-control and not correct people who mispronounced the name of the Seattle salad-and-pizza chain. Then, a while back, Pagliacci made shirts for its employees to wear to clear things up, because company policy is to be polite and not to correct people who say it wrong, and the shirt is a funny way to spread the message.
When I visited Pagliacci last night, home of my beloved Pagliaccio salad (add chicken!), I asked the woman at the counter (Heddie Leonne, above, who makes music under the name Everybody Weekend) whether people were pronouncing Pagliacci correctly now that the shirts had been around for a while.
Her response? “Not really.”
People! What do you need? A recording of someone saying it for you? Okay, here.
