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In English, the sound of soft g is the affricate /dʒ/, as in general, giant, and gym. A g at the end of a word usually renders a hard g (as in "rag"), while if a soft rendition is intended it would be followed by a silent e (as in "rage").
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.
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.
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
In English orthography, the letter k normally reflects the pronunciation of [] and the letter g normally is pronounced /ɡ/ or "hard" g , as in goose, gargoyle and game; /d͡ʒ/ or "soft" g , generally before i or e , as in giant, ginger and geology; or /ʒ/ in some words of French origin, such as rouge, beige and genre.
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.
A “soft swap” can mean that a couple may choose to enjoy everything but penetrative sex with another partner, per Brame. Think: Oral sex, handjobs, kissing and caressing.
Laptop-hard-drive-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".