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Nov 7, 2020 at 18:00 history tweeted twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/1325135960548454400
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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.
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Nov 19, 2015 at 15:48 comment added Araucaria - Him @ralph.m Yes, in the midlands and in Norfolk too!
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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/.
Nov 19, 2015 at 0:42 history asked Tom CC BY-SA 3.0