Re: An incongruent orthography: Maggel
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, April 8, 2002, 15:55 |
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Christophe Grandsire wrote:
>By the way, how would an English speaker
>pronounce the word "Maggel"? ['mAgl=]?
>
Given the context of this list, I immediately called it [mA'gEl], faster
[m@'gEl]--
but probably a mind untainted by any knowledge of linguistics would come up
with ['m&gl=]. (cf. snaggle, baggage-- |-agg-| would be [&g]; |-ogg-| would
be [Ag] as in boggle, toggle. Not very many Engl. bisyllables with final
|-el|, except borrowed "bagel" ['bejgl=])
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