Re: CHAT: On the term 'engelang'

Carlos Thompson wrote:
>And Rosta wrote:
>
> > The pronunciation of "engelang" is obvious once you know the
> > etymology -- as is often the case with English spelling. And <enge>
> > is the natural spelling, given the pronunciation; cf. henge, sprenge,
> > revenge.
>
>But this is kind of a "ghoty" thing, as those examples of "enge" for
>/EndZ/ are all word final.  I would have pronounce engelang as /EN@l{N/.
>Probably enge-lang would work better.
>
>But, of course, I am not a native English speaker.
Well, neither is I, but medial _nge_ for /ndZ/ does occur in English;
"strangely" comes to mind, strangely enough!

Still, I can't say I'm too thrilled by _engelang_ either. Let's unthrill all
the natives and spell it _enjlang_!

                                                     Andreas

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