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2naSalit

(86,597 posts)

23. I say it with the "G-Z" slide...

Reply to Warpy (Reply #11)

Mon Mar 22, 2021, 04:15 PM

Mar 2021

I learned to speak in northern New England so I had French and English exposure full time along with snippets if many other languages at public schools.

I have discovered, while proof reading college papers for ESL and foreign students, that they often try to equate similar sounding words and go for it when choosing a letter such as "G" for anxiety, especially if they never saw it in written form prior. Your description of Modern English is the most succinct I have ever seen yet our English is still very messy.

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English must be so confusing to ESL people - where is the 'g' in anxiety? [View all] bucolic_frolic Mar 2021 OP

Sometimes the "g" silent, as in night intrepidity Mar 2021 #1

Silent...invisible...don't laugh at ghosts. ret5hd Mar 2021 #2

Night...anxiety...ghosts...I hear you nt intrepidity Mar 2021 #4

ESL? Haggard Celine Mar 2021 #3

English as a Second Language, I guess. Glorfindel Mar 2021 #8

OMG! Haggard Celine Mar 2021 #13

We also tend to pronounce "luxurious" as if it contained both a Glorfindel Mar 2021 #5

Cool Whip: ret5hd Mar 2021 #9

Thanks! I have never seen "Family Guy." Glorfindel Mar 2021 #12

Lol happybird Mar 2021 #18

Dumdum's LUG-xhur-ee always made me clench my teeth, as did "YUGE" Warpy Mar 2021 #16

Some people have anxiety, others angst-iety. Buckeye_Democrat Mar 2021 #6

So I think you might be close... 2naSalit Mar 2021 #21

Or the p in hamster! TxGuitar Mar 2021 #7

I've seen people spell it with a 'p' too! Buckeye_Democrat Mar 2021 #10

I was just a hampster from New Hampshire bucolic_frolic Mar 2021 #14

Uh oh... 2naSalit Mar 2021 #22

A YouTube video could generate clicks and bucks bucolic_frolic Mar 2021 #24

People from all over the planet have told me it's easy to communicate in English Warpy Mar 2021 #11

I pronounce it that way too. Buckeye_Democrat Mar 2021 #19

While thinking about the "writing on the wall," I became "beside myself" NCjack Mar 2021 #20

I say it with the "G-Z" slide... 2naSalit Mar 2021 #23

It's important to remember several things about our language. PoindexterOglethorpe Mar 2021 #15

It's the price of success Shermann Mar 2021 #17

Well... 2naSalit Mar 2021 #26

Touche! Shermann Mar 2021 #27

Thank goodness for standardization... 2naSalit Mar 2021 #25

There are a million "anomalies" in English that include weird spelling, grammar, and idioms. Martin68 Mar 2021 #28