Re: CHAT: thingummy (was Re: concepts of Babel text)

From: "David Peterson" <DigitalScream@...>
> In a message dated 5/4/01 6:17:45 AM, rakko@CHARTER.NET writes:
>
> << How does one pronounce <thingummy>? I've only ever seen it once before, in
> one of the Chronicles of Narnia, and obviously never heard it spoken. >>
>
>     Ha, ha, ha!  Along with "thing", my Spanish-English dictionary has that
> word for the definition of "cosa".  Hee, hee, hee...  It's pronounced:
> ['TiN.V.mi]  Of course, there are those who say you can only get lax vowels
> in front of [N] in English (total bs), and some might be able to start a
> consonant with [N], but there's no [g] in it.
It may not be 'total bs', actually.  I know that at least in my speech /N/ after
/i/ is closer to [J] than it is after a vowel like [{].

I just MIGHT, if I wanted to be BOLD and DARING, say that English <ing> is
really /J=/.

     *Muke!