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With forest, warrant, horrible, etc., orange forms a class of English words where the North American pronunciation of what is pronounced as /ɒ/, the vowel in lot, in British Received Pronunciation varies between the vowel in north (/ɔ/ or /o/ depending on the cot–caught merger) and that in lot (/ɑ/ or /ɒ/ depending on the father–bother merger).
Webster's Third gives two pronunciations for sporange, one of which rhymes. However, one is a spelling pronunciation based on orange, and the OED only has the non-rhyming pronunciation, with the stress on the ange : / s p ɒ ˈ r æ n dʒ /. The American pronunciation of orange with one syllable has no rhyme, even in non-rhotic accents. [14]
The defining particular pronunciations of particular words that have more than an 86% likelihood of occurring in a particular cluster are: pajamas with either the phoneme /æ/ or the phoneme /ɑ/; coupon with either /ju/ or /u/; Monday with either /eɪ/ or /i/; Florida with either /ɔ/ or other possibilities (such as /ɑ/); caramel with either ...
For instance, some speakers from the Northeast pronounce Florida, orange, and horrible with [-ɑr-] but foreign and origin with [-ɔr-]. The list of words affected differs from dialect to dialect and occasionally from speaker to speaker, which is an example of sound change by lexical diffusion .
The letters nge , when final, represent /ndʒ/, as in orange; when not final their pronunciation varies according to the word's etymology (e.g. /ndʒ/ in danger, /ŋg/ in anger, /ŋ/ in banger). In most cases, gg represents /g/ as in dagger, but it may also represent /dʒ/ as in suggest and exaggerate.
The orange colour came from the Orange River, named for the Dutch House of Orange. The Dutch flag is in the canton. The Dutch flag is in the canton. The flag of South Africa (1928–1994) had an orange stripe, due to the influence of House of Orange and the period when there was a Dutch colony.
Orange (colour), the color of an orange fruit, occurs between red and yellow in the visible light spectrum Some other citrus or citrus-like fruit, see list of plants known as orange Orange (word) , both a noun and an adjective in the English language
This pronunciation occurs most strongly among Lubavitcher Jews but has also, at least in the past, been used in the speech of Italians, [64] [65] and it has become a stereotype of the New York City accent in general. [66] Speakers with and without this feature may realize /ŋ/ as [n] in unstressed -ing endings. [61]