caliginous
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2011 4:32 am
I found this lovely word in Alan Hollinghurst's The Stranger's Child. How exciting it is to find a word with which one is unfamiliar!
It is soft (i.e. pronounced "j"). Latin-derived words (as this is) usually have soft g before e or i, whereas Germanic-derived words (such as get and give) have hard g.Couldn't discover whether the g is hard or soft, though.