Timeline for Strong /strɔːŋ/ → stronger /strɔːŋɡər/ - Why do we have to put an extra /g/ in front of /ər/? Is it a rule?
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Nov 7, 2020 at 18:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/1325135960548454400 | ||
Nov 7, 2020 at 16:05 | history | edited | Rayan Khan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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Nov 20, 2015 at 4:05 | comment | added | Araucaria - Him | @sumelic Yes, that would be an interesting experiment. | |
Nov 20, 2015 at 3:53 | comment | added | herisson | @Araucaria: Well, it's not a very large sample size... as I said, I can only think of the three words long, strong, and young. I guess as an experiment, it might be possible to try to elicit comparative and superlative forms of monosyllabic pseudo-words ending in eng and see what native speakers tend to do. | |
Nov 20, 2015 at 3:48 | comment | added | Araucaria - Him | @sumelic The Longman's pronunciation dictionary backs you up on that point about comp and sup forms of wrong although I personally have a /g/ in wronger but not in wrongest. However, in general the observation about /ng/ in adjectives seems to hold as described by Roach, for example, in my post below. | |
Nov 20, 2015 at 0:53 | vote | accept | Tom | ||
Nov 19, 2015 at 15:48 | comment | added | Araucaria - Him | @ralph.m Yes, in the midlands and in Norfolk too! | |
Nov 19, 2015 at 15:46 | history | edited | Araucaria - Him | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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Nov 19, 2015 at 14:56 | answer | added | Greg Lee | timeline score: 2 | |
Nov 19, 2015 at 14:05 | answer | added | Araucaria - Him | timeline score: 10 | |
Nov 19, 2015 at 1:24 | comment | added | herisson | There aren't many adjectives that end with /ŋ/ and that take the endings -er -est, so it's debatable if this is a rule. However, it does also apply to the adjectives long and young. I'm uncomfortable adding -er -est to the adjective wrong, but if I did I would not insert a /g/. | |
Nov 19, 2015 at 1:06 | comment | added | Jim | "Sing" and "Strong" end with exactly the same sound for me. And I do know people who say //ˈstrɔːŋər/ (And it always sounds weird to me.) | |
Nov 19, 2015 at 0:58 | comment | added | Hot Licks | "Sing" doesn't end with a hard g. | |
Nov 19, 2015 at 0:49 | comment | added | ralph.m |
I'd say it's not so much a rule as just a reflection of the most common pronunciations. In some parts of England (think Beetle territory), singer might be pronounced as /sɪŋɡər/ .
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Nov 19, 2015 at 0:42 | history | asked | Tom | CC BY-SA 3.0 |