Angnother one (was: Heard in passin')

[Peter A. McGraw]

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
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