How would you pronounce Margery?

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I thought this was a simple name (unusual now but hard to get wrong) until DH said it.

Would you pronounce it with a hard G or soft G?

Soft g, I have never heard it the other way. Mar-juh-ree

Soft g

Soft g.

Soft g too.

Always a soft g.

Mar-jurree is the way I pronounce it! Have never heard it with a hard 'g'.

Soft. Definitely.

Marjery.

Soft g if you are English.

hmm I would pronounce it Mar -jery, therefore I guess it's with a hard G?

Soft, always, have never heard it any other way.
Have heard people say margarine with a hard g though. Very odd.

like marg(arine)
to rhyme with large, barge, etc

and the last bit more uh than eh
large-ry barge-ery marg-ery.

here

Like margarine, without the n sound.

IIRC hard g is Greek derivation from "pearl" and some pedants used to say margerine that way for the same reason.

Well that's pretty conclusive!

Like Marjorie but I think Marjorie is a prettier way to spell it.

I mean, I would read it with a hard G except for the fact I know it's pronounced Marjorie.

@HecatePropylaea That's exactly how I would say it, but I seem to be in a minority.

Also, few people have said it's like margarine, which has baffled me. I'd say Mar-Jah-Reen 9(hard G) I have never, ever heard anyone pronounce margarine with a soft g. I'm so confused!

Obviously not as straightforward a name as I thought, anyway!

Or Margate.

Well this is odd. What do you is 'a soft g' OP? Can you give us an example. Opinion seems to be united that margarine and Margery use a soft g.

My Godmother did pronounce margarine with a hard 'g', as in Gary. I think it might be an upper-class thing? (I'm definitely not, but she was, and very lovely as well!)

Op, do you mean that your soft 'g' is even softer, like the french 'je'? So, hard 'g' = Gary, medium 'g' = Joan, soft 'g' = 'Je' (french).

Thank you, yes I think I have caused some soft g/hard g confusion.

I was thinking of a soft g as being like a French je, as in "bonjour", as this is how DH says he would pronounce Margery/Marjorie. I'd pronounce it with a g like in Joan so was thinking of that as a hard G, but now I see what everyone means!

So Margery with a 'g' as in Jean seems to be the normal/correct way?