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On 02/14/2021 03:19 PM, Quinn C wrote:
On Forvo, it's US 3:1 soft, UK 3:0 soft, Austalia 1:0 soft and Canada
2:1 soft. But most of these examples are with last name attached, and
speakers might know the preference of a specific person by that name (G.
Anderson is the only one I know. She's American and has a soft G; I
checked three interviews.)


Anderson is a quasi-Brit so all bets are off. It must have been
interesting when her family brought her back to Grand Rapids from London
when she was a kid.