'mispronunciation' of "engelang" (was: Introduction)

--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Eric Christopherson <rakko@...> wrote:
> One of my words like that is _awry_... when I was a kid and I read
> that word (having never heard it) I would pronounce it as something
> like ['O:r\`i:]*.
Many years ago there was an episode of "That Girl" which involved this
pronunciation. Her father used that pronunciation and the whole episode was an
ongoing argument between him and her boyfriend Don (a writer) about the correct
pronunciation of that word.

Charlie

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