From: R A Brown <ray@...>
> Douglas Koller wrote:
> > From: R A Brown <ray@...>
> >> Maybe to avoid confusion we could use g-caron: enǧlang :)
> Help - what's happened to my lovely g-caron?
> Darn mailers mangling things again! I wrote "enǧlang" - that third
> symbol is a _g_ with a little, teensy-weensy _v_ (caron) on top.
That's what I saw, that's what I sent out, and that's what I got back in my e-mail
coming back to myself. In my section of the post, I just copied and pasted your
g-caron since I had neither the time nor the patience to hunt and peck for an
Altcode. Where along the line it got defiled I do not know.
> > Similar problem with the colloquial /vEdZ/ (presumably from
> > "vegetate"), meaning "to think in a clouded way, staring into space,
> > there in the first place says to self: "Douglas, stop vedging!")
> New to me - an Americanism?
Possiblement.
> > (and don't Britons occasionally use /vEdZ/ for "vegetables?").
> We do, we do - and not just occasionally, either.
> Meat and two veg.
> Yep - that's IME how its always spelled - just V E G.
Merriam-Webster backs you up (though it doesn't attest my cited usage as a verb). Still, forms
like "You veged!" or "Why is he veging?" look strange to me.
> [snip]
> > But now we can have veǧ! Hurrrah veǧ!... veǧ, veǧ, veǧ.
> You may, if you wish - but I shan't.
Given the limited audience who could read it, I doubt it'll catch on.
Kou