(I always feel like I should write these explanations in a really small font so it doesn't detract from the jokes, but here goes) ... Fridge is a shortening of refrigerator which is in itself a word coming from refrigerate (from the original latin word refrigeratus - to make cool). So it should have been shortened to "frige" which would have had a hard g. But some people believe that a popular early brand of appliances called the "Frigidare" (from the latin Frigidus - cold) is the source of the shortening and altered form "fridge", not refrigerator per se, and the pronunciation then fitted other similarly spelled word s like hedge, wedge, nudge, ridge etc.
because "frige" wouldn't be pronounced the same as "fridge" and since its just supposed to be a shortening of the word refrigerator, your supposed to keep the pronunciation similar, even if you have to spell it a little different.
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