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Xuan12 · 31-35, M
English likes to sometimes pretend that "G" makes the "J" sound, but spelling it "Frij" was too weird for people to recognize, so they threw in the "D" from the word "Frigid" to make "fridge", which looked close enough to the "frige" from "refrigerator" that people could recognize it. "frigere" is the key term in the word, from latin, meaning to make something cold.
adhane05 · 31-35, M
This is fascinating! I couldn't help but add the letter 'D' the first few times I spelled 'refrigerator' too.