[alt-photo] Re: voiced fricatives

[Loris Medici]

Hi Judy, how about gymnasium? It's the first letter but is pronounced with
the soft g... BTW, being (almost a native) francophone, no one will be able
to have me pronounce gynecology with the hard g, it's just absolutely
impossible for me. Your (hard g) pronounciation sound so wrong to my ears
that I'd prefer to pronounce it in the "wrong" way (to your American ears I
mean), with a soft g... :)

Regards,
Loris.

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Subject: [alt-photo] Re: voiced fricatives

On Tue, 12 Jan 2010, Loris Medici wrote:

...
However, for what it's worth, in English, the "y" after the "g" makes the g
soft, as in gyroscope, tho not, for instance, in gynecology (if you want an
argument). Tho that could be because it's the first letter in the word,
which can break the rule.
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