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Nov 14, 2023 at 12:36	comment	added	Araucaria - Him		@DavidGarner with one exception being the onomatopoeic word boing!
Nov 20, 2015 at 13:47	comment	added	David Garner		My OE is limited to 'An Old English Grammar' by Randolph Quirk!
Nov 20, 2015 at 13:11	comment	added	Araucaria - Him		@DavidGarner Yes, in fact the last elipsis in the Roach text is a paragraph from the book which says exactly that! Re the OE, I'd never heard that before but it sounds eminently plausible to me. (I'm not good on OE though, so your guess is better than mine!)
Nov 20, 2015 at 12:15	comment	added	David Garner		Also, could it be that the comparatives like 'stronger' are treated differently because (e.g.) the OE form was 'strengra' - no vowel between the /g' and the /r/ - which presumably reduced later to *strengr, with syllabic 'r'. This would have been easier to pronounce with the /g/ in place.
Nov 20, 2015 at 12:10	comment	added	David Garner		+1 @Araucaria, thoroughly put. Could I add that, as afar as I can tell, /ŋ/ in English is always preceded by a short single vowel, never a long vowel or diphthong? If that's true, I guess it's a consequence of the fact that /ŋ/ is always derived from /n/ + /g/ or /n/ + /k/.
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Nov 20, 2015 at 3:30	comment	added	Araucaria - Him		@Tom Thank you :) It's a freely productive affix. You can add -er to any base verb to give you a well-formed noun meaning a person or thing that does that thing. See -er noun suffix definition 2 here at Merriam Webster : )
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Nov 20, 2015 at 0:58	comment	added	Tom		Hi, very interesting but I could not find "Longer" with the meaning of "The ones that long to go home" in the dictionary. Where do you get that word?
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