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Nov 12, 2020 at 17:21	comment	added	Rayan Khan		@Lambie: The g in hangover is the letter, yes. But the [g] is not a letter.
Nov 12, 2020 at 17:20	comment	added	Lambie		The g in hangover is the letter. Need I explain that more? This is just silly.
Nov 12, 2020 at 16:39	comment	added	Rayan Khan		@Lambie: First, if the question was about 'letters' or 'spelling', the OP would've selected the 'spelling' tag. Second, the OP says (before I edited, you can check the edit history): "I actually heard a few of people pronounce "g" in "hangover", like the "g" in "game". So, should "g" in "hangover" be pronounced or silent?" ///////////// Do I still need to explain it further?
Nov 12, 2020 at 16:36	comment	added	Lambie		I used your notation. YOUR notation. The letter g in hangman is not stand-alone. It is part of the sound cluster ng which is notated phonetically as /ŋ/. The OP asked about the letter g, so I tried to answer the question as asked and first clarified that fact.
Nov 12, 2020 at 15:59	comment	added	Lambie		If you never discussed letters in your answer, you failed to answer the question. There is no [g], the hard g of get in hangman. So, it is not that it is not pronounced, it's that the SOUND is not there. The sound is comprised of ng in letters, which is /ŋ/. With the little tail.
Nov 12, 2020 at 15:55	comment	added	Rayan Khan		@Lambie: Once again, you're confusing sounds and letters. I've never discussed 'letters' (as you say) in my answer. Why do you think your answer got downvoted and mine got upvoted? Because you are confusing letters with sounds. [g] is a sound, g is a letter. [g] is the first sound in the word 'get'. [ŋ] is the sound at the end of 'sing'. Do you pronounce a hard g (as in 'get') after [ŋ] at the end of the word 'hang'?
Nov 12, 2020 at 15:50	comment	added	Lambie		No, I never confuse sounds. I may confuse a phonetic description of a sound. If you REMOVE the letters ng from hangman, you get: haman. If you remove the g, you get: hanman. And if you remove the n, you get hagman. And finally, ng = /ŋ/ is a nasal sound made in the same position as /k/ and /g/, so the tongue is raised at the back, touching the soft palate and the noise is released through the nose. as I said in my answer.
Nov 12, 2020 at 15:44	comment	added	Rayan Khan		@Lambie: Can you distinguish between g and [g]?
Nov 12, 2020 at 15:42	comment	added	Lambie		"It seems that the [g] doesn't get pronounced in compound words". Yes, that is incorrect. It is not Hanover, the name of a town. If you remove the g, that is what you get: Hanover. I explained all this in my answer but people downvote because they are clueless.
Nov 12, 2020 at 15:26	comment	added	Rayan Khan		@Lambie: I've never said they were. Can you explain what you're trying to say? And a downvote? Right. (Anyone can downvote like I just did!)
Nov 12, 2020 at 15:24	comment	added	Lambie		hang and hangover are not different in terms of the NG.
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