This is a good example of a word that can be used to instantly demonstrate that you are indeed more intelligent than your interlocutor.

This is a fairly well known word...

I know people who use the word 'ish' in a slang sense. When they do so they generally mean 'somewhat'.

I have never heard any one pronounce it with anything but a 'g'.

Surely the irony of a fundementalist Muslim protecting the 'purity' of Persian is that it doesn't matter! To him the only language God speaks is Arabic.

An interesting word - with a complex history dating to 18th century France.

Seems to have gained popularity amongst geek circles because of its salient position in D&D.

Is there any book that is able to teach you to read the IPA symbols adequately?

I think the issue here is that 'bugger' still retains some of it's original denotation, viz, someone who commits 'buggery', that is sodomy. An example of the use of bugger in this way would be the putative quip of Churchill when he saw the plain wife-to-be of a Labour M.P Thomas Driberg - notorious ...