Doesn't mean you have to follow.
Mind you, gerrymander is pronounced as jerrymander.
Just sayin'
Generally a G is soft when followed by an i, e, or y BUT the words of Germanic origin are different and will have the hard G, like in 'gift'.
Hence the battle over 'gif'.
The D is always soft in 'Donald'.
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I meant to say last night - your knowledge base in this field is WAY ahead of mine, so I can only listen and learn.
You are, in some ways, a bigger word nerd than our resident professional word nerd (Neil).
I'm just the number nerd. Excluding old fashioned things like pounds, miles or shillings.