Re: LCC2: Meeting our Community
| From: | Joseph Fatula <joefatula@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, July 17, 2007, 5:44 |
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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.
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That's a _giant_ mistake! (Well, okay, a minor mistake, but minor
doesn't have "gi" in it.)
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.
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