Originally Posted by gridplan

Except when they're followed by an h that precedes a soft vowel, which makes the c's sound like a k. Bottecchia = Bo-TEK-ee-ah. Same is true with h following a g that precedes a soft vowel. The ghi in Poliaghi is pronouned 'ghee' instead of 'gee' because of the presence of that h. Then there's gli which introduces sort of a y sound into the mix. It's tough for me to express phonetically, but for Pogliaghi it's something along the lines of Pole-YAH-ghee.