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Household Hints & Help

PoindexterOglethorpe

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16. Pronunciation.

Reply to keithbvadu2 (Reply #12)

Sun Jul 7, 2019, 12:45 AM

Jul 2019

How would you pronounce "frige"? Yeah, something like freye - g. With the final g pronounces like the g in "great".

The spelling "fridge" has you pronouncing it the same as the middle syllable in "refrigerator". And in that word, the g has the sound it has because of the e that immediately follows.

English spelling and pronunciation is tricky, but not completely opaque.

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