pronunciation query
hoch...@rocketmail.com
Find a word in which "g" is followed by "a" but pronounced like "j".
There may be may answers to this, I didn't think too hard about it.
Mike
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Jandel
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>Find a word in which "g" is followed by "a" but pronounced like "j".
>There may be may answers to this, I didn't think too hard about it.
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>Mike
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Only one that springs to mind is 'gaol' (along with 'gaoler'!)
Cheers
Pete
Lynn Johannesen
: Find a word in which "g" is followed by "a" but pronounced like "j".
: There may be may answers to this, I didn't think too hard about it.
This one is common in the US:
margarine
Matt McLelland
> Find a word in which "g" is followed by "a" but pronounced like "j".
> There may be may answers to this, I didn't think too hard about it.
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> Mike
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Garaffe
MHW
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Garaffe
(Try giraffe)
Jandel
MHW wrote in message
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No. Giraffe doesn't work - that is G 'i'.
:¬)
Cheers
Pete
Tony T. Warnock
Jandel wrote:
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> >Find a word in which "g" is followed by "a" but pronounced like "j".
> >There may be may answers to this, I didn't think too hard about it.
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> Only one that springs to mind is 'gaol' (along with 'gaoler'!)
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Margarine
Huw Morris
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> Find a word in which "g" is followed by "a" but pronounced like "j".
> There may be may answers to this, I didn't think too hard about it.
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Imagary
Fred Galvin
That reminds me of another puzzle, which I saw in a book some time ago
(TIA if somebody can remind me what book that was): the puzzle was to find
the misspelled word in a list of words, consisting mainly of rare and
unusual words spelled correctly, which look like misspellings of common
everyday words. If "imagary" is a real word (it's not in my desk
dictionary, I haven't looked in a big dictionary), that would be a good
example, as it looks like a misspelling of the word "imagery".
Wei-Hwa Huang
>Find a word in which "g" is followed by "a" but pronounced like "j".
>There may be may answers to this, I didn't think too hard about it.
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Algae.
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Wei-Hwa Huang, whu...@ugcs.caltech.edu, http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~whuang/
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Martin Julian DeMello
: hoch...@rocketmail.com writes:
:>Find a word in which "g" is followed by "a" but pronounced like "j".
:>There may be may answers to this, I didn't think too hard about it.
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: Algae.
Huh? AFAIK algae is pronounced with a hard g.
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Martin DeMello
Jamie Dreier
David...@anu.edu.au wrote:
> On 31 Mar 1999 20:50:57 GMT, Martin Julian DeMello
> The Macquarie [Australian] Dictionary lists it with the same sound as
> the j in 'joke'. Local usage may (and probably does) vary.
So does the American Heritage, and so does the OED.
-Jamie
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Virgil
<h.mo...@rl.ac.uk.nospam> wrote:
>> Find a word in which "g" is followed by "a" but pronounced like "j".
>> There may be may answers to this, I didn't think too hard about it.
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There is a Poem named "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" by Oscar Wilde.
"Gaol" is a word in British English with the same meaning and
pronunciation as the word "jail" in American English.
A further example of two great nations separated by a common language.
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Virgil
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dti...@my-dejanews.com
Martin Julian DeMello <mdem...@pound.ruf.rice.edu> wrote:
> Wei-Hwa Huang <whu...@ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:
> : hoch...@rocketmail.com writes:
> :>There may be may answers to this, I didn't think too hard about it.
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> : Algae.
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> Huh? AFAIK algae is pronounced with a hard g.
Not by me. Nor by the people at Merriam-Webster. It is interesting
to note that the singular, alga, is pronounced with a hard G.
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Dan Tilque
David Howse
<mdem...@pound.ruf.rice.edu> wrote:
>Wei-Hwa Huang <whu...@ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:
>: hoch...@rocketmail.com writes:
>:>Find a word in which "g" is followed by "a" but pronounced like "j".
>:>There may be may answers to this, I didn't think too hard about it.
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>: Algae.
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>Huh? AFAIK algae is pronounced with a hard g.
The Macquarie [Australian] Dictionary lists it with the same sound as
Kent Parks
: :>There may be may answers to this, I didn't think too hard about it.
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: : Algae.
: Huh? AFAIK algae is pronounced with a hard g.
Not in the US, anyway... "AL-gee"
Jandel
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>> >Huh? AFAIK algae is pronounced with a hard g.
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>> the j in 'joke'. Local usage may (and probably does) vary.
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>> >Huh? AFAIK algae is pronounced with a hard g.
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>> the j in 'joke'. Local usage may (and probably does) vary.
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Talking Oxford Dictionary lists both as valid pronunciations!
Rejards
Pete :¬)
Eytan Zweig
Virgil <vm...@frii.com> wrote in message
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> In article <3701EEF1...@rl.ac.uk.nospam>, Huw Morris
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> >> Find a word in which "g" is followed by "a" but pronounced like "j".
> >> There may be may answers to this, I didn't think too hard about it.
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> SPOILER
Which, just to make clear, isn't about how to read the word "Gaol", but
rather about the Gaol by Reading town.
Eytan Zweig