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In English orthography, the pronunciation of hard g is /ɡ/ and that of soft g is /dʒ/; the French soft g , /ʒ/, survives in a number of French loanwords (e.g. regime, genre), [ʒ] also sometimes occurs as an allophone of [dʒ] in some accents in certain words.
This is termed hard G in Dutch dialectology. [2] [3] It is also used in Afrikaans, so that the Afrikaans word goed 'good' has the same pronunciation as in Northern Dutch ([χut]), in addition to having the same meaning in both languages. [4] Speakers normally use those pronunciations in both standard language and the local dialect.
The digraph dg has the value /d͡ʒ/ (soft g ), as in badger. Non-digraph dg can also occur, in compounds like floodgate and headgear. The digraph ng may represent: a velar nasal (/ ŋ /) as in length, singer; the latter followed by hard g (/ŋɡ/) as in jungle, finger, longest; Non-digraph ng also occurs, with possible values
Post-velar and uvular variants are called harde g "hard g", while the post-palatal and velar variants are called zachte g "soft g". [9] There is also a third variant called zwakke harde g "weak hard g", in which /ɣ/ is realized as [ ɦ ] and /x/ is realized as [ h ] and is used in Zeeland and West Flanders, which are h-dropping areas, so that ...
Laptop hard drive, with its platter exposed. Giga-(/ ˈ ɡ ɪ ɡ ə / or / ˈ dʒ ɪ ɡ ə /) is a unit prefix in the metric system denoting a factor of a short-scale billion or long-scale milliard (10 9 or 1,000,000,000). It has the symbol G. Giga-is derived from the Greek word γίγας (gígas), meaning "giant".
HSAB is an acronym for "hard and soft (Lewis) acids and bases".HSAB is widely used in chemistry for explaining the stability of compounds, reaction mechanisms and pathways. It assigns the terms 'hard' or 'soft', and 'acid' or 'base' to chemical species.
Billie Eilish. Jon Kopaloff/Getty Images for Vanity Fair Billie Eilish gave her fans a sneak peek of the tracklist for her upcoming album, Hit Me Hard and Soft. “HIT ME HARD AND SOFT TRACKLIST ...
Steve Wilhite's slide at the 2013 Webby Awards. The pronunciation of GIF, an acronym for the Graphics Interchange Format, has been disputed since the 1990s.Popularly rendered in English as a one-syllable word, the acronym is most commonly pronounced / ɡ ɪ f / ⓘ (with a hard g as in gift) or / dʒ ɪ f / ⓘ (with a soft g as in gem), differing in the phoneme represented by the letter G.