Pronouncing algae

[ofwarren]

Kids are watching Octonauts and they are pronouncing it Al Jee when I always thought it was Al Gee.
Which one is correct?
Have I been pronouncing it wrong all my life?

I say al-gee.

Maybe we're both wrong?

Hard g.

I'm so confused. I would have assumed with Octonauts being a BBC programme that they are correct.
It just sounds wrong to me though.

The J sound is US English apparently

dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/english/algae

I wonder is Octonauts is made for an American market then?
The accent is very RP though.

I can’t remember how I’ve pronounced it previously.

They both sound odd to me now

google finds loads of “helpful” websites - some give hard G, some give J & it’s rarely clear if they’re UK or US (if not a .co.uk ULR)

It’s looking like one of those muddled ones.

URL

(Losing my marbles altogether now )

There are British and American episodes of octonauts. If Peso has a Latino accent then it’s the American version.

The BBC stopped trying to pronounce things properly ages ago. I really struggled when they lived a lot of their studios up to Manchester and eventually just gave up (foreign so not used to that kind of accent).

Neither. I say Al -gay

The BBC stopped trying to pronounce things properly ages ago

I think it's more that they no longer try to enforce one local definition of 'properly', and reserve the concept of proper pronunciation for when it matters most - the names of people and places.

Al Gee is pronounced the same as Al Jee though... 'gee up, gee whizz'

Did you mean Al Ghee?

I think I usually would use a hard G but not 100%.

Think al-jee def the American pronunciation

Yes @Errolthedragon
You are right, I meant like Ghee 😁