Just wondering how you say it.
- guh RAWZH
- GARE awzh
- guh RODGE
- GARE idge
- GA ridge
- Other
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Ga ridge
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I had to check myself between #1 and #3; sometimes New York and California are fighting over my tongue. But #3 won.
Davy and Peter: Does your Ga in “Ga ridge” really rhyme with the solfege syllable “Fa”? Or does it rhyme with the vowel in “bad” or “cat”? If the latter, I think that is what choice #4 represents.
Leave it to the Scots. I shall add this one to the list.
guh-raj
I assumed the former, but yeah, it’s a good question.
Except I think they’re just misinterpreting your phonetics, not giving a new one, and they mean your #4. And I think Mutie is indicating your #1.
Could be! I’ll wait. Then I’ll send them PMs and pester them mercilessly.
I would say that’s a for sure.
Down here it’s Gah-rarge Classy individuals,like,ahem,myself,call them sheds 
.. That’s when the car is left outside in the street and the good stuff is kept in the shed !
g’rahj or grahzh
Guh-RAHZH. #1 comes close, but I distinguish my cots and caughts.
GRAHCH is sometimes heard around here, too. I see that’s not on the list either.
The latter (bad/cat).
If the latter, I think that is what choice #4 represents.
See, I’d pronounce that ‘gair’ (as in ‘bare’, ‘care’, ‘dare’, ‘fare’ or ‘the Gareloch’)!
I would concur with Peter regarding the Gare but in my area of Scotland the Ga would sound more like the Fa.
David
There is nothing sounding like a z in our pronunciation. It’s close but that’s not it.
#3 and everything in there but the car. It is meant for storage, no?
Mine is half shed, half workshop.
It is attached, rear-loading, basement-level. Whoever came up with that one has to be nuts. I would have to shovel over 100 feet/30 meters of driveway to get my car to the road after a snowstorm. There’s no getting up the thing without shoveling because it’s so steep. Since I don’t care about the finish of my car, the only reason to put it in a garage is to keep it out of the snow.
I’ts not a z, Mute. The “zh” is a conventional way of writing the soft j sound, like the z in “azure” or the French j in “Jacques”. As opposed to “dge” for the hard j sound in “John”. And in your syllable “raj”, it’s not clear which one you mean.
Me too. I think Nano’s “rawzh” is the “caught” vowel. But since “caught” and “cot” are in free variation by region, #1 can stand for both.
I just looked for an online text-to-speech translator for IPA notation to create unambiguous audio links for the pronunciations, but couldn’t find anything convenient. 
Nano, you’ve created a monster.
There is a workbench buried the furthest within the garage. I have a wrap around the house driveway (all the neighborhood does too) from the 1950s (WWII track housing) and when it snows… everyone parks their vehicles up at the top/street, otherwise, no one would get out from the garage.
And the garage dimensions are the absolute minimum for any automobile. No lincolns nor caddy’s here. Moreover, since super storm Hurricane Sandy the house/property, especially the basement level garage, is now designated “flood zone” and requires special insurance. I just recently finished the flood damage repair from Sandy.
Exactamundo.
Right. I wondered did he mean “rodge” or “radge”. I don’t see what’s problematic with this end of my attempts at phonetic rendering; after all, we all know how to pronounce “lodge” and “badge”, so that part of it should at least be easy. As for the “zh”, I’m disappointed to learn that it’s not as univerally understood among the literate as I thought. I mean, c’mon: how else should you pronounce zaporozhye or Dzerzhinsky? 
That was the intent. I myself don’t really distinguish between “cot” and “caught”.
Too late I remembered the differences in rendering pronunciations as seen in US and UK spelling conventions. As I was logging in to check on this thread, I regretted that I hadn’t offered sound samples instead.
I’ll take that as an upside.