Re: /N/ vs /Ng/ (was: Re: English notation)
| From: | Shreyas Sampat <nsampat@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, June 30, 2001, 4:56 |
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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.
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Shreyas
: > 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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