Re: An incongruent orthography: Maggel

 --- John Cowan wrote:

> And with final stress, 13 more:
> cartel, compel, dispel, excel, expel, hotel, hovel,
> impel, lapel, motel, pastel, propel, repel.
In Amsterdam we have a thing called "botel", a hotel
on a boat. It might not be a bad idea for the Oxford
and the Webster guys to think it over.

BTW, what about a one-syllable word like "gel"?

Jan



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