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
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pronunciation of length/strength etc.
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Re: pronunciation of length/strength etc.
Marcus I sure hope you mean the word "English", else someone's going to leave a long long dropping...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
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Re: pronunciation of length/strength etc.
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.
Marcus I sure hope you mean the word "English", else someone's going to leave a long long dropping...
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Re: pronunciation of length/strength etc.
Yeah ...sorry, 'twas a bad and rhetorical joke.of course I meant the word English, since it is the -eng- that is in question...
Marcus I sure hope you mean the word "English", else someone's going to leave a long long dropping...
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!
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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
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