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I guess Doge as in Dogecoin was meant to be pronounced "doggie", deliberately misspelt, whereas the Venetian Doge is pronounced /ˈdoʊdʒ/ (~doj).

The E at the end of doge (Venetian ruler) is not mute.

Wikipedia has the e as mute in Venetian but not in Italian...?

I'm Venetian, so I'm probably biased, but I never heard the word 'doge' without the 'e' even outside Venice.

Maybe Wikipedia needs correcting...

That's how I read it before I learned of the meme. I preferred it that way.

No.