Garage

I looked up garage in a dictionary - these are the phonetic notations I could find:
In British English either /'gaera:sh/ and /'gaeridsh/
In American English /gè'ra:sh/. (Always soft 'sh'-sound).

Well, I'm a native English-speaker, and I've always heard the words "espionage" and "barrage" pronounced exactly the same as far as the "age" part goes.

Answering your question, though, "garage" is pronounced like "espionage." The first 'g-' is a hard 'g' sound, and the second is the soft sound you get in "espionage."

I hope that helps.

Depends where you come from in England. In the south is garage tends to be pronounced as in barrage. In much of the north it is pronounced differently - mor like "garridge". But espionage and garage are pronounced pretty much the same both north and south (similar to in French, I guess).

The previous post should, of course, read that "espionage and barrage are pronounced pretty much the same both north and south."

/g&-'räzh/, /-'räj/; chiefly New England /-'r[a']zh/, /-'r[a']j/; Canad also /-'razh/, /-'raj/; British usually /'gar-(")äzh/, /-(")äj/, /-ij/.

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00By the way, how can I say the strong syllable. Its GArage or gaRAge? I've heard both but I would like to know more about it.02br
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0Around here: /g@r\{Z/ or /g@r\OZ/0-

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00By the way, how can I say the strong syllable. Its GArage or gaRAge?12blockquote

10I'd say both are correct. It is just a matter of British and American English. In BrE the stress is usually on the first syllable while in AmE the second.02br
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00Hope this helps.02br
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00Orph0-

0 Now I got it Orpheus!!02br
00thanks everybody!0-