Cross-language.... something

[afuna]

Trying to find an English word which sounds out like "ng+g" (not necessarily spelled that way), to prove (or maybe disprove) a point in a conversation.

I thought "finger" was close, but it turns out it's pronounced "fin+ger", rather than "fing+ger", huh.

Comments

[pne]

Other ng-g words include "anger, anguish (ang-gwish), language (lang-gwidge), languish, angle".

"English" can go either Ing-glish or Ing-lish (though not, I think, "In-glish" or "En-glish").

Other ng words include "ringer (on a telephone), thingy, singing".

I'm not sure whether there are n-g words; I suspect that in normal speech, they would turn into ng-g words anyway (e.g. hypothetical "un-give", to take back a gift, would tend to be pronounced "ung-give").

[afuna]

Oooh, thank you. I can't believe I didn't think of any of these! I thought of one more I should have, too: "manga" (and I should have thought of it because there's a Filipino word "mangga" meaning "mango", and they have the same "ng+g" sound pretty much in both English and Filipino even if they're spelled differently.

I can't think of any n-g words either. Hmm. The examples I can think of turn out to be n+j sounding (pangaea, ginger), so they don't really count.

[rho]

Ingrate?

[afuna]

OMG.

Irony of... agh. I just realized that I had used "language" in the title of this entry, you know, the one where I was looking for an example of an ng+g word... agghh *hangs head in shame*