Jun 28, 2021 · The hard-G pronunciation soon lost favor, with endorsements of the soft G coming from the US Board on Geographic Names in 1934, and from the city of Los Angeles itself in …

Oct 16, 2015 · Rather, the hard /g/ is because fog, dog, wag, dig, big (all spelled with a single <g>) are pronounced with hard /g/. And on the other hand, the examples I gave above, …

Oct 24, 2014 · In English, words with a 'g' followed by a front vowel (e, i, y) can be pronounced with a soft g or a hard g: Words with Germanic roots are usually pronounced with a hard g: …

Jan 28, 2015 · In singer the break is between the g and e, making the ING a sound of its own without the hard g sound. This also applies to ng with other vowels such as ang, ung, ong. To …

Apr 11, 2019 · Hard G ( as in gift) Soft G( as in giraffe) This is a classic example of toe-ma-toe vs toe-mah-toe. This is a question. This is a bit opinion based.You are free to downvote this post. …

Jun 25, 2021 · What I'm talking about is pronouncing, for example, "winning" as "winningG," like really pronouncing the G at the end. When I pronounce "winning," the G is pretty subtle. I do …

Aug 29, 2015 · The word renege comes from Medieval Latin renegare (source). It is the only English word of Latin origin I'm aware of that doesn't follow the soft g pronunciation rule. The g …

Sep 15, 2022 · margarine is a soft g. I'm sure there will be other examples that don't rely on the "trick" of using ae (which in some typefaces and some words is a single character anyway). – …

Nov 7, 2020 · Word-internal [ŋg] mostly remained (as in finger, anger), but an originally word-final -ng- that becomes word-internal only as the result of the addition of certain suffixes is …

Non-palatalized <g> in words from Latin and Greek. Gibbous comes from Latin, but mysteriously appears to have always been pronounced with hard /g/ (according to the Oxford English …