G

The letter G.



The letter G is a consonant. It only has one sound, [g] as in "gig". There is no soft sound as in English J.



The name of G is, unfortunately, it's historical soft G sound, jē, [dʒi]. This is because the name of a letter has little to do with its actual sound sometimes...like American English H is "eych" instead of Australian H "heych". That, and the point of PAO is not to change how we pronounce stuff, but how we write and read American English.