Angnother one (was: Heard in passin')

[Wilson Gray]

On May 2, 2005, at 7:10 AM, Ed Keer wrote:

> ---------------------- Information from the mail header
> -----------------------
> Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Poster:       Ed Keer <edkeer at YAHOO.COM>
> Subject:      Re: Angnother one (was: Heard in passin')
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> --------
>
> Reminds me of the Swedish pronunciation of Magnus:
> Mangnus. For some reason I could never master this
> one.

So, Swedish uses the Classical Latin pronunciation of Latin.
Interesting.

-Wilson

> --- "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?
>>
>>
> *****************************************************************
>> Peter A. McGraw       Linfield College
>> McMinnville, Oregon
>> ******************* pmcgraw at linfield.edu
>> ************************
>>
>
> __________________________________________________
> Do You Yahoo!?
> Tired of spam?  Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around
> http://mail.yahoo.com
>