Timeline for Pronunciation of double G: soft "gg" versus hard "gg"
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| Oct 16, 2015 at 1:37 | comment | added | Nihilist_Frost | English is trial-and-error when it comes to learning pronunciations. | |
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| Apr 19, 2015 at 13:16 | comment | added | Centaurus | sumelic, in addition to "dagger" and "doggerel", we also have: agger, chigger, nigger, trigger, and juggernaut, all of them pronounced with a "hard g". Of course GGe in Italian words will always be a "soft g" but then again Italian words are.....well, Italian words. By the same token, GGe in German words will always be pronounced with a "hard g". | |
| Apr 19, 2015 at 12:42 | comment | added | Centaurus | From Wiktionary Almost any “g” that follows another “g” is pronounced hard, even before “e”, “i” or “y”: for example bigger, foggier and soggy. So having noted that, this only lists exceptions where the “gg” is pronounced soft after all. exaggerate, ~ed, ~es, ~ing, ~ings, ~ion, , ~ions suggest, ~ed, ~ible, ~ing, ~ings, ~ion, , ~ion, , ~ive, , ~iveness, ~s veggies, ~y | |
| Apr 19, 2015 at 3:06 | comment | added | herisson | @tchrist: Whoa, some of those are tough to find in dictionaries! As best as I can tell, they seem to split up about half and half (soft g: aggerate, reggeon; hard g: bluggy, bröggerite; I have no idea: miggy). Again, not a very promising ratio for this rule IMO. | |
| Apr 19, 2015 at 2:29 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | Perhaps also aggerate, bluggy, bröggerite, miggy, reggeon. | |
| Apr 19, 2015 at 2:09 | history | answered | herisson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |