Re: CHAT: On the term 'engelang'
| From: | Shreyas Sampat <shreyas@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, May 15, 2002, 0:37 |
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: Well, I am a native English speaker, and my feeling on
: this is about the same as yours... when I think about
: it I know it's supposed to be /EndZl&N/ or something
: like that, but that mid-word -ge- does _not_ sit right
: with me and I keep wanting to pronounce it in my mind
: the same way as you...
I'm still unclear as to why 'engineer' gets contracted to 'enge', rather
than 'engi', which is not ambiguous nor does it pull a vowel glyph out of
nowhere.
Though I really don't ever like silent vowel glyphs; 'enlang' is my favorite
variant here.
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Shreyas