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		freehunter on Sept 15, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Are available domain names still important... Since you mention that, it might be the first syllable that is difficult. Frugal and bugle are easy to say. Google is not. Maybe it's the back-to-back hard-G sound?

Izkata on Sept 15, 2019 | [–]

To me it's the same "g" as in the word "good".

"good" + "frugal" -> "google"

lonelappde on Sept 16, 2019 | [–]

Yes the double G is hard for some people, because you have to leave yhrG and come back to or immediately.

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