Re: CONLANG Digest - 2 Nov 2000 to 3 Nov 2000 (#2000-301)
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, November 12, 2000, 23:17 |
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Eric Christopherson wrote:
> I've never thought to use <mong> as a verb, but I think it's acceptable in
> my idiolect to say <monger>, although I never do. Besides the oddity of the
> pronounced /g/
Actually, that probably isn't an oddity. Since the verb {mong} no
longer exists, -monger is probably treated as a single morpheme, hence,
the /g/ is expected.
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