Re: /N/ vs /Ng/ (was: Re: English notation)

on 29/06/2001 23:02, Herman Miller at hmiller@IO.COM wrote:

> On Fri, 29 Jun 2001 03:24:49 EDT, David Peterson <DigitalScream@...>
> wrote:
>
>> My most recent linguistics teacher has this, too.  But, generally, I
>> think I can list all the words /Ng/ in my dialect: anger, hunger, hungry,
>> angry, finger, monger, bungler, angler, wrangler...  Things like that; all
>> natural nouns (either human, animal or abstract) that have been in English
>> for a while.  At least, I think that's it...
>
> What about... single, mingle, tingle, shingle, Kris Kringle, Pringles,
> Bangor, language, linguist, angle, dangle, mangle, newfangled, dongle,
> ungulate, and penguin?
I think "ngle" words qualify as their own special group.



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