fluffy 💜Okay time for another pronunciation poll: Longitude vs. Longitudinal, do you use a hard G (like Gift) or a soft G (like Giraffe)?
Both use hard G
Both use soft G
Longitude hard, Longitudinal soft
Longitude soft, Longitudinal hard
Poll ended at .
Every pronunciation guide I see has a soft G for "longitude" (with some differences between UK and US for whether the "tu" is like 'tube' vs. 'choob') but they only get into the UK pronunciation of "longitudinal" where it's a hard G
And it seems weird to me that you'd pronounce the G differently between those two different words, since they're, like, the same root?
Tim Richards