Timeline for Pronunciation of double G: soft "gg" versus hard "gg"
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| Feb 11, 2017 at 3:08 | comment | added | herisson | @PeterShor: My initial skepticism seems to be to some extent wrong. "Exaggerate" apparently was at one point pronounced by some people with a /g/ sound for the "gg" according to Walker's Critical Pronouncing Dictionary | |
| Oct 16, 2015 at 1:47 | comment | added | Peter Shor | Exaggerate would have entered English from Mediaeval Latin, where it was pronounced with a soft 'g'. And French has a word exagérer which means the same thing. I don't see any evidence that exaggerate would ever have been pronounced with a hard 'g' in English. | |
| Sep 29, 2015 at 19:17 | review | Late answers | |||
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| May 25, 2015 at 15:03 | comment | added | Centaurus | As for the original question, would you say that rule applies? Are there more exceptions to the hard GG in addition to "exaggerate", "suggest" and loan words from Italian ? | |
| May 25, 2015 at 14:57 | review | First posts | |||
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| May 25, 2015 at 14:53 | history | answered | Crayton | CC BY-SA 3.0 |