Editing G (section)

===English===
In English, the letter appears either alone or in some [[Digraph (orthography)|digraphs]].  Alone, it represents
* a [[voiced velar plosive]] ({{IPA|/ɡ/}} or "hard" {{angbr|g}}), as in ''goose'', ''gargoyle'', and ''game'';
* a [[voiced palato-alveolar affricate]] ({{IPA|/d͡ʒ/}} or "soft" {{angbr|g}}), predominates before {{angbr|i}}, {{angbr|e}} or {{angbr|y}}, as in ''giant'', ''ginger'', and ''geology''; or
* a [[voiced palato-alveolar sibilant]] ({{IPA|/ʒ/}}) in post-medieval loanwords from French, such as ''rouge'', ''beige'', ''genre'' (often), and ''[[margarine]]'' (rarely)

{{angbr|g}} is predominantly soft before {{angbr|e}} (including the digraphs {{angbr|ae}} and {{angbr|oe}}), {{angbr|i}}, or {{angbr|y}}, and hard otherwise. It is hard in those derivations from ''[[wikt:γυνή|γυνή]] (gynḗ)'' meaning woman where initial-worded as such. Soft {{angbr|g}} is also used in many words that came into English from medieval church/academic use, French, Spanish, Italian or Portuguese &ndash; these tend to, in other ways in English, closely align to their Ancient Latin and Greek roots (such as  ''[[wikt:fragile|fragile]]'', ''[[logic]]'' or ''[[Magic (supernatural)|magic]]'').
There remain widely used a few English words of non-Romance origin where {{angbr|g}} is hard followed by {{angbr|e}} or {{angbr|i}} (''get'', ''give'', ''gift'', ''gig'', ''girl'', ''giggle''), and very few in which {{angbr|g}} is soft though followed by {{angbr|a}} such as ''[[gaol]]'', which since the 20th century is almost always written as "jail".

The double consonant {{angbr|[[Dg (digraph)|gg]]}} has the value {{IPA|/ɡ/}} (hard {{angbr|g}}) as in ''nugget'', with very few exceptions: {{IPA|/d͡ʒ/}} in ''exaggerate'' and ''veggies'' and dialectally {{IPA|/ɡd͡ʒ/}} in ''suggest''.

The digraph {{angbr|[[Dg (digraph)|dg]]}} has the value {{IPA|/d͡ʒ/}} (soft {{angbr|g}}), as in ''badger''. Non-digraph {{angbr|dg}} can also occur, in compounds like ''floodgate'' and ''headgear''.

The digraph {{angbr|[[Ng (digraph)#N|ng]]}} may represent:
* a [[velar nasal]] ({{IPAc-en|ŋ}}) as in ''length'', ''singer''
* the latter followed by hard {{angbr|g}} ({{IPA|/ŋɡ/}}) as in ''jungle'', ''finger'', ''longest''
Non-digraph {{angbr|ng}} also occurs, with possible values
* {{IPA|/nɡ/}} as in ''engulf'', ''ungainly''
* {{IPA|/nd͡ʒ/}} as in ''sponge'', ''angel''
* {{IPA|/nʒ/}} as in ''melange''

The digraph {{angbr|[[Gh (digraph)|gh]]}} (in many cases a replacement for the obsolete letter [[yogh]], which took various values including {{IPA|/ɡ/}}, {{IPA|/ɣ/}}, {{IPA|/x/}} and {{IPA|/j/}}) may represent:
* {{IPA|/ɡ/}} as in ''ghost'', ''aghast'', ''burgher'', ''spaghetti''
* {{IPA|/f/}} as in ''cough'', ''laugh'', ''roughage''
* ∅ (no sound) as in ''through'', ''neighbor'', ''night'' 
* {{IPA|/x/}} in ''ugh''
* (rarely) {{IPA|/p/}} in ''hiccough''
* (rarely) {{IPA|/k/}} in ''[[wikt:s'ghetti|s'ghetti]]''
Non-digraph {{angbr|gh}} also occurs, in compounds like ''foghorn'', ''pigheaded''.

The digraph {{angbr|[[Dg (digraph)|gn]]}} may represent:
* {{IPA|/n/}} as in ''gnostic'', ''deign'', ''foreigner'', ''signage''
* {{IPA|/nj/}} in loanwords like ''champignon'', ''lasagna''
Non-digraph {{angbr|gn}} also occurs, as in ''signature'', ''agnostic''.

The trigraph {{angbr|ngh}} has the value {{IPA|/ŋ/}} as in ''gingham'' or ''dinghy''. Non-trigraph {{angbr|ngh}} also occurs, in compounds like ''stronghold'' and ''dunghill''.

G is the [[Letter frequency|tenth least frequently used letter]] in the English language (after [[Y]], [[P]], [[B]], [[V]], [[K]], [[J]], [[X]], [[Q]], and [[Z]]), with a frequency of about 2.02% in words.