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Re: LCC2: Meeting our Community

From:T. A. McLeay <conlang@...>
Date:Tuesday, July 17, 2007, 6:01
Joseph Fatula wrote:
> T. A. McLeay wrote: >> AFAIK, it's because it's pronounced /endZl&N/ i.e. as two syllables, and >> -ge- is one way to spell of soft g (cf. also vegetable /vedZt@b@l/), but >> -gi- isn't. > > That's a _giant_ mistake! (Well, okay, a minor mistake, but minor > doesn't have "gi" in it.)
-gi- does not spell a soft g. It spells a soft g with a following i (be it long, short, schwa, yod or other). (There are probably examples with -gia-=/dZ@/ or similar, but I had in mind a following consonant.)
> On another note - was "vegetable" originally pronounced with a /dZ/ in > it? Is it still? I'm not sure I've heard it as anything other than > [vetSt@bL\=], but the spelling would seem to indicate otherwise.
I pronounce "vegetable" the way I indicated; why would I have lied? (And, compare also with words like "vegetarian" that clearly indicates it was a /dZ/ regardless of what it is for you.) -- Tristan.

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