Message: "Rigel" - Behind the Name

[Facts] Rigel

by Akua Topaz

11/3/2010, 2:28 PM

Is the name Rigel pronounced with a hard G, or with a soft one (to rhyme with Nigel)?

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- Anneza +2

11/4/2010, 5:43 AM

I've only ever heard it rhymed with Nigel! And that is the first, and therefore preferred, pronunciation given by Collins dictionary, though it does provide the hard-G version as its second choice.

- Lea M (lcgirl20)

11/10/2010, 1:22 PM

Also agree

I know a Rigel, and he pronounces it to rhyme with Nigel.

- vigdis (guest)

11/6/2010, 8:24 AM

Agree. And it was pronunced that way in Farscape

but then again, that's a sci-fi television program. :-D

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