Wikipedia calls it 'ng coalescence'. "This means that the words finger and singer do not rhyme in most modern varieties of English, although they did in Middle

Wikipedia calls it 'ng coalescence'. "This means that the words finger and singer do not rhyme in most modern varieties of English, although they did in Middle English." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonological_history_of_English_consonant_clusters#NG-coalescence https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonological_history_of_Engl...