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There are not many words ending in "eng", but there's one starting with "eng", and it happens to be pronounced like "ing": "English".
by bloak 5y ago
There are not many words ending in "eng", but there's one starting with "eng", and it happens to be pronounced like "ing": "English".
- Terretta 5y agoAre you suggesting for you “enter-“ and “inter-“ are entirely intermingled? From South of Mason Dixie line and anecdata of one, but don’t pronounce pen like pin or English like Ingrid (or -ing). // Of course the beginnings and endings make one think of big endian and little Indian.
- ksenzee 5y agoI do not have the pen/pin merger (raised in the Seattle area), and I do not pronounce "enter" and "inter" the same, but I do pronounce English as if it were Inglish. I think that word is an exception.
- PaulDavisThe1st 5y agoAnd was once pronounced "Ang" :)
- pschuegr 5y agoStill pretty close in the German pronounciation.
- KMag 5y ago> Still pretty close in the German pronounciation[sic]. Well... I don't find it so surprising that the home of Anglia and the Angles hasn't changed its pronunciation of Angle-land as much. Some mercenaries (if you believe Bede) consisting of Angles from Anglia, Saxons from Lower Saxony, and Jutes from Jutland crossed the channel to fight for various Celtic rulers following the power vacuum left by the Romans leaving Britain. The mercenaries eventually took over part of it, and that part became known as Angle-land. (Of course, this is a gross oversimplification.) The descendants of the mercenaries became known as Anglo-Saxons (not enough Jutes, I guess). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_settlement_of_Britain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_settlement_of_Brit...
- majormajor 5y agoEngineering, interestingly, is not pronounced like that.