Dr. Giuseppe G. A. Celano

Postscriptum

My name is spelled Giuseppe (and not Guiseppe): the ⟨i⟩ is part of the Italian digraph ⟨gi⟩, which is used to mean its pronunciation is [dʒ]. The ⟨i⟩ is therefore not pronounced: no, it is not 🙂. If this can help you remember, a similar phenomenon occurs with the word ciao. The ⟨i⟩ is not pronounced, but serves to mean that the preceding ⟨c⟩ has to be pronounced as [tʃ]. Without ⟨i⟩, ⟨c⟩ is pronounced as [k] (similarly to English cool) and ⟨g⟩ as [ɡ] (similarly to English good).