pronunciation of length/strength etc.

[Bailey]

I've heard both pronunciations, how do you pronounce it and please give your location or where you learned English, and if you say 'lenth', please tell us how you pronounce English. Thank you

mark just-curious Bailey

[skinem]

With a 'g' here. Learned English in the south and west.

[Perry]

I also pronounce the Gs. (I mean jeez, who doesn't )

[Bailey]

who doesn't? Why people from the Iron-range in Minnesota I went to college with a few and we tried in vain to change their lenth and strenth to length and strength, but to no avail.

mark not-that-picky-Right! Bailey

[gailr]

According to Merriam Webster:

Pronunciation: 'le[ng](k)th, 'len(t)th and 'stre[ng](k)th, 'stren(t)th.

I grew up in the midwest and learned the first options; however, I heard them pronounced more like 'lA[ng](k)th and 'strA[ng](k)th.

-gailr

[Ferrus]

I have never heard any one pronounce it with anything but a 'g'.

[sluggo]

I've heard both pronunciations, how do you pronounce it and please give your location or where you learned English, and if you say 'lenth', please tell us how you pronounce English. Thank you

mark just-curious Bailey

Marcus I sure hope you mean the word "English", else someone's going to leave a long long dropping...

[bnjtokyo]

I pronounce both with a velar nasal, and I grew up in the central valley of California. Both parent grew up in the LA area.

[Bailey]

Marcus I sure hope you mean the word "English", else someone's going to leave a long long dropping...

of course I meant the word English, since it is the -eng- that is in question. I hear Lenth every so often and I wondered if the origin was broader than Just the iron range in Northern Minnesota.

mark I'm-glad-to-see-we-all-agree-on-the-"g" Bailey

[sluggo]

Marcus I sure hope you mean the word "English", else someone's going to leave a long long dropping...

of course I meant the word English, since it is the -eng- that is in question...

Yeah ...sorry, 'twas a bad and rhetorical joke.

Then there's the sort-of opposite effect, where in a word like singer the G comes out as in "linger" instead of being ennasalised (I just made that term up (I think) ) (and what of the recent monger?). Not sure what US regionality this use belies but I used to hear the late George Harrison do it, for one.

On an unrelated note, yesterday I heard my mother split her time between pronouncing and not pronouncing the L in salmon. I've heard one other person (from Norfolk) do this. And my brother, all by hisself, likes to do the L in folk. More polls!

[Bailey]

I'm sorry; I really shouldda been more explicit, I was really looking for the pronunciation of eng solely, not ing which, btw, Bubba never says correctly as an ending but always pronounces as -in'-. sigh

mark picker-of-nits Bailey

[Perry]

I just recalled that Bullwinkle used to say to Rocky:

"Hey Rocky! Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat."

He would then pull out a lion, and exclaim, "Hmm, don't know my own strenth."