Angnother one (was: Heard in passin')

[Ed Keer]

Reminds me of the Swedish pronunciation of Magnus:
Mangnus. For some reason I could never master this
one.


--- "Peter A. McGraw" <pmcgraw at LINFIELD.EDU> wrote:
> Just recently I've increasingly heard the same
> result (well, the same
> congsonant) with a different derivation.  At least
> on NPR, and maybe also
> on ABC (TV) News, I keep hearing "prengnant," and
> today on NPR I heard ng <
> g in another word, which as usual I was sure I was
> going to remember and
> which I just as surely forgot.  I wouldn't swear I'd
> never heard this
> before, but at least not enough to become conscious
> of it.  Is this a new
> development, or an old one that I am only now tuning
> in to?
>
>
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> Peter A. McGraw       Linfield College
> McMinnville, Oregon
> ******************* pmcgraw at linfield.edu
> ************************
>

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