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In article <1992Dec19.202807.9631@enea.se>
sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) writes:
 
>
>JAREA@UKCC.UKY.EDU writes:
>>>Other differences occur in words such as 'magnam' - is it mag-nam with a
>>>hard 'g' or is it 'manyam'?
>>
>>The classical pronunciation was 'mang-nam'
>
>Now wait here, this is interesting. What exactly do you mean
>with "ng"? Velar nasal only, or nasal + "g"?
>
>Or was "mang-nam" just a typo for "mag-nam"?
>
 
Sorry to have been unclear:  I assumed that most of the questions and dis-c
cussion on this topic involved primarily English speakers, and ones not adept
at phonetics.  The Latin word had its first syllable with initial [m], the
usual bilabial nasal consonant; vowel [a] as in English 'father' (most dia-
lects); final sound the velar nasal, with no [g], as in most pronunciations
of 'song'.  By the way, I find my machine converting square brackets to
colons, so that if they are arriving that way on your machine, imagine them
to be the usual square brackets used to embrace (no pun intended) phonetic
transcriptions.
 
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>Erland Sommarskog - ENEA Data, Stockholm - sommar@enea.se