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English is weird
pwhodges:
The OED only lists a hard g, while Merriam-Webster only lists a soft g. Curiously the Oxford Dictionary of American English also shows it as hard - so what do they know?
As the name is adapted from the Portuguese Magalhães (which has a nasalised pronunciation I think), a hard g would be nearer the original.
Method of Madness:
I sometimes hear people pronounce Los Angeles with a hard g which is just...what? It's not the city of angles!
Sorflakne:
--- Quote from: Akima on 05 Aug 2015, 02:58 ---Listening to a video on YouTube, I was surprised to hear Magellan (as in Ferdinand Magellan the explorer and navigator) pronounced "Majellan". I have always heard and pronounced the name with a hard G, and Wikipedia lists the two pronunciations as alternatives. Is this a variation between US English and "Commonwealth" English?
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I've never heard his name pronounced with a hard G.
chaospersonified:
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 05 Aug 2015, 05:09 ---I sometimes hear people pronounce Los Angeles with a hard g which is just...what? It's not the city of angles!
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I've heard that before, but the person speaking was always saying it as a kind of joke
Kugai:
*Cringes at TV as people who should know better pronounce Masamune as Massarmane*
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