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.

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[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.