What's different between pronouncing of these words: Get and Gem?
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I know that the Ge sound pronounced as J in the English language.
Exp. Gem. But the pronounce of "Get" word is not pronounced like that.
Can anyone explain this?
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I know that the Ge sound pronounced as J in the English language.
Exp. Gem. But the pronounce of "Get" word is not pronounced like that.
Can anyone explain this?
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"Get" is simply an exception. Wiktionary has a list of such exceptions: en.wiktionary.org/wiki/… In most cases, the reason for "g" being pronounced with one sound or the other is etymology, as described in this related post on this site: english.stackexchange.com/questions/204231/…
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I know that the Ge sound pronounced as J in the English language.
Exp. Gem. But the pronounce of "Get" word is not pronounced like that.
Can anyone explain this?
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I know that the Ge sound pronounced as J in the English language.
Exp. Gem. But the pronounce of "Get" word is not pronounced like that.
Can anyone explain this?
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"Get" is simply an exception. Wiktionary has a list of such exceptions: en.wiktionary.org/wiki/… In most cases, the reason for "g" being pronounced with one sound or the other is etymology, as described in this related post on this site: english.stackexchange.com/questions/204231/…
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"Get" is simply an exception. Wiktionary has a list of such exceptions: en.wiktionary.org/wiki/… In most cases, the reason for "g" being pronounced with one sound or the other is etymology, as described in this related post on this site: english.stackexchange.com/questions/204231/…
– sumelic
2 mins ago
"Get" is simply an exception. Wiktionary has a list of such exceptions: en.wiktionary.org/wiki/… In most cases, the reason for "g" being pronounced with one sound or the other is etymology, as described in this related post on this site: english.stackexchange.com/questions/204231/…
– sumelic
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"Get" is simply an exception. Wiktionary has a list of such exceptions: en.wiktionary.org/wiki/… In most cases, the reason for "g" being pronounced with one sound or the other is etymology, as described in this related post on this site: english.stackexchange.com/questions/204231/…
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"Get" is simply an exception. Wiktionary has a list of such exceptions: en.wiktionary.org/wiki/… In most cases, the reason for "g" being pronounced with one sound or the other is etymology, as described in this related post on this site: english.stackexchange.com/questions/204231/…
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