SPORTS ON NY RADIO by David Halberstam; Encarta Dictionary

[Joseph McCollum]

On Tue, 21 Sep 1999 20:22:16 -0400 "Dennis R. Preston"
<preston at PILOT.MSU.EDU> writes:
>Yeah. But what did he hear (if anything) which made him say "hard
>_G_"? An earlier response suggested that the affricate might qualify as
"hard"
>in English. Think so?
>
>dInIs
>

The only place I've ever heard Los Angeles with a hard g was in a Bugs
Bunny cartoon.