hard and soft ⟨g⟩. The sound of a hard ⟨g⟩ (which often precedes the non-front vowels ⟨a o u⟩ or a consonant) is usually the voiced velar plosive [ɡ]...

between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. In the Dutch language, hard and soft G (Dutch: harde en zachte G) refers to a phonetic...

the Teuthonista phonetic transcription system G with diacritics: Ǵ ǵ Ǥ ǥ Ĝ ĝ Ǧ ǧ Ğ ğ Ģ ģ Ɠ ɠ Ġ ġ Ḡ ḡ Ꞡ ꞡ ᶃ ց : Armenian alphabet Tso ₲ - Paraguayan guaraní...

between hard and soft ⟨c⟩ occurs in which ⟨c⟩ represents two distinct phonemes. The sound of a hard ⟨c⟩ often precedes the non-front vowels ⟨a⟩, ⟨o⟩ and ⟨u⟩...

(with a hard g as in gift) or /dʒɪf/ (with a soft g as in gem), differing in the phoneme represented by the letter G. Many public figures and institutions...

for "hard and soft (Lewis) acids and bases". HSAB is widely used in chemistry for explaining the stability of compounds, reaction mechanisms and pathways...

boiling water. Hard-boiled eggs are cooked so that the egg white and egg yolk both solidify, while soft-boiled eggs may leave the yolk, and sometimes the...

See Hard and soft G in Dutch for more details. The frication in the fricative trill variant sometimes occurs at the middle or the back of the soft palate...

Spanish example in distinguishing between the hard and soft ⟨g⟩. That is to say, to preserve a voiced ⟨g⟩ ([ɡ]) that would otherwise be a [x] when followed...

have a hard time finding graduates with the soft skills their companies need. Hard skills were the only skills necessary for career employment and were...

fiction. It explores the "soft" sciences (e.g. psychology, political science, sociology), as opposed to the "hard" sciences (e.g. physics, astronomy, biology)...

is hard/soft: ⟨а⟩/⟨я⟩, ⟨э⟩/⟨е⟩, ⟨ы⟩/⟨и⟩, ⟨о⟩/⟨ё⟩, and ⟨у⟩/⟨ю⟩. The otherwise silent soft sign ⟨ь⟩ also indicates that the previous consonant is soft. Irish...

portmanteau of information and entertainment), also called soft news as a way to distinguish it from serious journalism or hard news, is a type of media...

hard, and are used to make permanent magnets. Materials with low coercivity are said to be magnetically soft. The latter are used in transformer and inductor...

graphemes and features borrowed from French: Notes: Similar to Italian hard and soft C. /k/ before a, o, u, ü, and ch. Similar to Italian hard and soft G. /dʒ/...

in modern polytheistic practices is between so-called soft polytheism and hard polytheism. "Soft" polytheism is the belief that different gods may either...

Hard water is water that has a high mineral content (in contrast with "soft water"). Hard water is formed when water percolates through deposits of limestone...

types: hard (твёрдый [ˈtvʲɵrdɨj]) or plain soft (мягкий [ˈmʲæxʲkʲɪj]) or palatalized Russian also distinguishes hard consonants from soft consonants and from...

consonant inventory of Old English and can still be found in some dialects of English, most notably in Scottish English, e.g. in loch, broch or saugh (willow)...

thereby limit its ability to penetrate armor are designated hard-kill active protection measures. Soft-kill measures are designed to defeat guided weapons either...

that still has this distinction) and [ʝ] in the south. This difference of pronunciation is called 'hard and soft g'. In English, ch is most commonly...

Other Romance languages and, to an extent, English have similar variations for ⟨c, g⟩. Compare hard and soft C, hard and soft G. (See also palatalization...

vowel. Post-velar and uvular variants are called harde g "hard g", while the post-palatal and velar variants are called zachte g "soft g". There is also...

because gaol does not follow the usual English pronunciation rules for hard and soft G and ao is not a standard English diphthong In Britain a 'detention centre'...

drugs may be colloquially referred to as "hard drugs", and less harmful drugs as "soft drugs". The term "soft drug" is considered controversial by critics...

communication from soft media sources has been referred to as soft news as a way of distinguishing it from serious journalism, called hard news. Soft news is defined...

Soft Top Hard Shoulder is a 1992 British comedy drama film directed by Stefan Schwartz, produced by Richard Holmes, written by and starring Peter Capaldi...

In politics (and particularly in international politics), soft power is the ability to co-opt rather than coerce (in contrast with hard power). It involves...

The complementary term soft science fiction, formed by analogy to the popular distinction between the "hard" (natural) and "soft" (social) sciences, first...

historical and comparative linguistics. In Old Slavonic orthography, which is closely related to Proto-Slavic, the soft sign (Ь) and the hard sign (Ъ) were...