From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #9131 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Wednesday, June 15 2022 Volume 14 : Number 9131 Today's Subjects: ----------------- New York's Best Bagels delivers Nationwide ["Long Island New York Bagels"] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2022 06:20:41 -0400 From: "Long Island New York Bagels" Subject: New York's Best Bagels delivers Nationwide New York's Best Bagels delivers Nationwide http://investoment.ru.com/3RmAoicsUu93L1E-rA6k3Y51JJtahYDjgLGgPvK-ePPSO9Esnw http://investoment.ru.com/Oe2B1W7e3bKNxJpNo6x_ocQmk3Obgct_Kjzbvr_5Cz5SgMQ82w tic controversy stems partly from the fact that there is no general rule for how the letter sequence gi is to be pronounced, with the hard g prevailing in words such as gift, and the soft g being used in others such as gin. In Old English, g would make the soft g sound as well as y's consonant sound, and when the hard g was added, both its hard and soft variations persisted when followed by i. An analysis of 269 words by linguist Michael Dow found near-tied results on whether a hard or soft g was more appropriate based on other English words; the results varied somewhat depending on what parameters were used. Of the 105 words that contained gi somewhere in the word, 68 used the soft g while only 37 employed its counterpart. However, the hard g words were found to be significantly more common in everyday English; comparatively obscure words like flibbertigibbet and tergiversate, both pronounced with a soft g, were included in the list of 68 soft gi words. When the prevalence of each word was taken into account, it was found that the hard and soft g appeared in nearly equal frequencies in gi words. No clear favorite was found by only using the words that begin with gi, nor by only using words with one syllable such as gift and gin. In her coverage of the piece, Canadian linguist Gretchen McCulloch theorizes that since the hard and soft g in this context are used with near-equal frequency, when one first encounters the word GIF, they ma ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #9131 **********************************************