So an OGS bot is a 牛狗, an “ox-dog” or niúgǒu?
OGS → “ox” → 牛
AlphaGo → “alpha gǒu” (alpha dog) → gǒu (bot) → 狗
We could even draw 牛狗 out into a Japanese reading: うしいぬ ushiime.
Exceptions:
| word | root |
|---|---|
| cringe | OE cringan |
| hinge, henge | OE henġe |
| singe | OE senġan |
| twinge | OE twenġan |
| whinge | OE hwinsian |
I think there is a whole lot of these, actually, enough to make the exception a rule.
It’s interesting that the origins usually have a “ng” as in “wing” as a pronunciation, or are from a word pronounced with “ns”
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I think you mean ushiinu, め is me, ぬ is nu. Also, compound kanji words are usually with the Chinese reading (おんよみ), which would make this ぎゅうく or ぎゅうこう
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In Old English study, ġ actually represents a “soft G” /j/ or /dʒ/ (Modern English “y” or “j”).
In original texts, it was unmarked and just written g, like the hard G.
Yes, but you should look at the etymology beyond Old English, and at related words in other languages.
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I’m quite sure the “GS” is silent, thus the correct pronunciation is “eau”
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Is Go pronounced with a soft or hard G?
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I’d like to say that’s pretty cut and dry since we can just ask the Japanese…
But 棋/碁 has an awful lot of pronunciations 
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囲碁 is always “igo”
“g” sound may have slightly different pronunciation in different languages
me(Russian) don’t understand what soft and hard ‘g’ means
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In English, G can be pronounced as either Г or ДЖ. When it’s pronounced as the latter, we say it is a ‘soft’ g.
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you mean “J”?
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Yes, but words like “generic” (дже́нерик) aren’t spelled with a ‘J’.
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then answer is “hard G”
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Here are some other examples of English words with a “soft G”
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Otherwise it would be Jo!
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How can we be sure that it isn’t??
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Not “Gio”? 
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How do you pronounce “OJS”???
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じょ is jo
ご is go
碁 is ご
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