How Do You Say It?

[pixelpefekt]

I've heard it said both ways by so many people. So I'm curious which way you say it and I wonder if it's a regional thing?

 

[johno]

ALGEE not ALJEE but ALGEE

 

[shelaghfishface]

algee

 

[andywg]

From a quick look it appears that it is more often pronounced as a J sound in the US (Orather than a hard G sound).

The singular of algae is alga. I would be surprised if that was still pronounced with a J sound, but my latin pronounciation is not perfect.

 

[tenohfive]

algee

Seconded.

 

[Tetraking]

Yep its ALGEE for me aswell

 

[Genesis]

I say: AL-GEE

 

[peter22UK]

i really hate it when people say Aljeeah

 

[Myuu]

Al-Jee >_____> I've only heard like, one of my teachers at school pronounce it the other way, and sometimes people on TV. I can't help that I live the US D:

 

[geo7x]

You will indeed find that people who say al-jee are from the US. My old science teacher was American and he said al-jee (he also said fun-jee for funghi).

 

[corey01]

al-GEE

 

[OldMan47]

In the US it is pronounced with a J sound by most people. Other places have other ways to pronounce things. Many words in what we regard as our single language are pronounced quite differently depending on where you grew up. I was raised in Canada, moved to the US and find that even such a short move meant that several words that I heard each day sounded wrong to me. Even after living here for a long time, there are parts of the country where they say things I cannot understand. If people spell the words they are words that I immediately recognize and may be a word that I used 10 minutes before but local accents can be extreme.

 

[kribensis12]

Al-ji. Yes, im American

 

[OohFeeshy]

From a quick look it appears that it is more often pronounced as a J sound in the US (Orather than a hard G sound).

The singular of algae is alga. I would be surprised if that was still pronounced with a J sound, but my latin pronounciation is not perfect.

If I recall, latin always has 'hard' sounds for g and c (so no 'jiraffe' or 'see-sar'). Although if you were totally going by latin pronounciation you'd say 'al-guy'- the 'ae' ending for plural is pronounced 'aye' as in, puellae (girls) which is pronounced 'pu-ell-aye' as opposed to 'pu-ell-ee', which it would be if you pronounced it like most people are pronouncing algae.

 

[fergalthefish]