Re: /N/ vs /Ng/ (was: Re: English notation)
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, June 30, 2001, 4:03 |
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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?
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