Re: CHAT: On the term 'engelang'

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.

-- Carlos Th

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