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Word: inge (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1876-1876
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...short syllables into one," and pronouncing words "terminating with a liquid, particularly with l, m, or n, in such a manner as to leave out the sound of the vowel: thus, Sweden, Britain, garden, vessel, are extensively pronounced Swed'n, Brit'n, gard'n, vess'l. The syllable ing they abbreviate into en. They also omit the aspirate in words beginning with wh; for example, wheat and wharf are made weat and warf." Do any traces of these peculiarities still linger among Bostonians...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EIGHTY YEARS AGO. | 10/20/1876 | See Source »

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