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

On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 01:00:10AM -0400, Shreyas Sampat wrote:
> Interestingly, all these belong to the -er category, or have a liquid or
> glide following the /N(g)/ (with the exception of ungulate).  Maybe that's
> significant.
For me, <ungulate> has a glide following the /Ng/: /"VNgj@lIt/

> : >    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?
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Eric Christopherson, a.k.a. Contrarian Conlanger Rakko ^_^