How do you pronounce "OGS"?

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I object, it would ruin approx. 30% of established memelore.

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Right, right, native Japanese dictates something, but Go in English is a loanword that is free to evolve.

Anyways, in English, don’t we sometimes say “I’m joing to the store” and “I’ll have a coffee-to-jo*, please”?

*also often simply called a “cup of joe”

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or き :weary:

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Then, again, maybe the “G” is silent, like in the word “gnat”, so the name of the game would be pronounced similarly to the name of the server, as suggested by @benjito

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ignore not Jōyō pronunciations

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Oh?

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I realize now I missed the obvious opportunity to state that “j’objecte”.

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:trident: :trident: :trident:

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Pedantry: does pudgy really have a soft G, or is dg a digraph?

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Why not both? Seems like it would still be considered a soft g as it certainly isn’t hard!

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What I meant by a digraph is like gh in rough or enough, a grouping of two letters to create a different sound.

Is dg a d + a sort of super-soft g? Or is it a silent d + a regular soft g?

Or is it a digraph with the sound of a soft g?

And in, say, budge or lodge, should dge be considered a trigraph?

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I wonder if questions like that have answers…

Here’s one: is “olo” in colonel a trigraph? Or is “colonel” a septagraph??

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Others have pointed out that “lough” presents a tenth distinct pronunciation of “ough”, and that, in contrast, it’s funny how “pony” and “bologna” rhyme.

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OT but also related, and maybe ask permission if applicable

I’m listening to something.

Speaker: Emperor X the Hoarse, hoarse as in voice not horse as in…
Me:
Speaker: face.
Me: Oh.

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And how goose and house rhyme

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Neither. Everyone plays on OGS. :smiley:

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Ah, so you’re in the silent G camp

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Wait what? They don’t in any English I’ve heard???

Goo-ss
How-ss

Which one are you pronouncing like the other and why?

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They rhyme in the north of England… tha’s a canny wee house fa tha goose…

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“There’s a moose loose aboot this hoose” (“There’s a mouse loose about this house”), a standard cliché highlighting Scots language pronunciation.

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