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Frankly, I have never heard anyone NOT pronounce the "g".

It's a "g" like the g and the st in "gesture", or similar to the spanish "ch" as in "chile".

You can go to www.webster.com and listen to the pronunciation if you want to. It's the only way to pronounce it from what I know. Although there is a "g" mentioned in the pronunciation at webster.com, if you listen to it, you ca

I'm sorry, I didn't ask properly
I was referring especially to the /g/ sound as in "get".

So my question is: Do you pro

I was wondering how it would sound at the end of a monosyllabic word, i.e. tag, rog, peg etc. Thanks in advance.

Hi Pemmican

I am not native, but I am sure that the right pronunciation is more like "se'dshest"..

To be more sure about it, you can check Cambridge Dictionary (dictionary.cambridge.org) where they show the phonetics, or the Merriam-Webster Dictionary (www.m-w.com) where you can listen the pronunciation...

Maj, you can check those dictionaries, too.

I agree with The Mystic Dude. In America it's definitely pronounced with the hard "g" and then the 'j' sound, like "sug-jest."

Maj, answering your question...it's another one of those goofy English things where it depends on the word. I'll say that 9 times out of 10, it's going to be a hard "g" sound. The only situation I can think of where it wouldn't be a hard 'g' sound would be wh

You mean like Ma-j- Rog is pronounced like j from the word Maj. Are we getting mixed up here? Please, could you clarify this one for me? You know some people are neurotic about these type of things. Well, I must confess that I am one of those who, when you have a word on the tip of your tongue but you can't really say the word, keep trying and trying until the word finally comes out. Gosh, say so

haha, that's correct, maj! Rog is pronounced with the same 'j' sound as in maj! You can relax now!

Relax, now! Doesn't seeing the two of them together really scare you? What I mean is, if in a three letter word, a 'j' and a 'g' can sound the same, what are we going to do when we have to say these sounds in longer words?

haha, well, I'm a native speaker, so it doesn't really bother me. If there's a word that I don't know how to pronounce, chances are most other people don't know how to pronounce it either...but I can certainly see where you're coming from!

Just keep in mind, though, that about the only time you'll have a g make a 'j' sound in a 3-letter word is if the word is short for another word and

haoqideIn America it's definitely pronounced with the hard "g"

As a native english speaker and someone with american relatives I must tell you that I have never heard anyone pronounce a hard G in suggest. As far as I know it is pronounced Suh-Jest