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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

If that was true, then it'd be "Hay Mardge, grab me..."

We do insert a soft d sound into words like that.

So I looked it up and got the answer from Merriam Webster. In a too-late-didn't-read version:

It was originally spelled FRIG. But the latin (where the word refrigerator came from) pronunciation would require a hard G, such as in dog, or big. Adding an e would've softened the G, but created a long-I, frige, rhyming with oblige.

Making it a dge solved the problem. And so it is now pronounced like dodge and bridge.

The English language sure is a headache for spellers.