Re: CHAT: On the term 'engelang'

Hello,

> > 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.
If you ask me - I used to read it as [ENg@lAN] until I figured just what
it is.

Speaking of 'ghoti' - I just love Okrand's humour :-) ('fish' in Klingon
is 'ghotI')

Pavel
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'I am a philologist, and thus a misunderstood man'
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