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first rule of english pronunciation: there are no rules. All that matters is if people understand what you mean when you say it.
I gave up on this discussion when you have to consider gin, generate, giraffe, gene, gym, etc
Also I pronounce it with the soft sound because that's what it sounds like in the bloody alphabet.
See also ghoti (fish). English orthography only works by agreement, not rules
I'll be the first to say that English is a mess. However, there are rules, and this word breaks them.
That "gh" never appears at the beginning of a word, always at the end (as in "enough"). That "ti" is never at the end of a word; it's always inside (as in "nation").
Ah, a VSauce Fan
Yes, but a fan of so much that I may have heard of that before Vsauce covered it. Vsauce is much good though, all of them have some credit
According to Wikipedia, that spelling goes back to 1855. I first heard about it in the '90s.
Just say gif like gnome
Nifty
guh-nif?
There actually are rules. They're just complicated because English prefers to preserve the pronunciation of loan words without changing their spelling and English has a ton of loan words. If you ignore them, native English words are fairly consistent.
so I assume you also say "jit-hub"?
No, and you don't say juitar (guitar), jame (game), or jallon (gallon), either.
Yeah, because those all start with gu or ga.