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[–] commandar 10 points 9 months ago

The article cites the opinion of an unnamed author of an unnamed "image encyclopedia." Not really what I'd call definitive, which was the point.

In my circles back then, soft G was predominant. I wouldn't cite that as evidence of a One True Pronunciation either.

There has always been debate about it. Hard G has certainly become predominant, but declaring that people that prefer soft G "weren't on the internet back then" is revisionist at best.