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"What other English words have three consonants in a row? "

"English", "words", "three", and "consonants", to list a few.

Jay

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"What other English words have three consonants in a row? "

"English", "words", "three", and "consonants", to list a few.

Jay

But 'dgm' is not the same thing. The 'e' is necessary to soften the
'dg'. We don't have 'managment', now do we?

Nope:

abridgement, acknowledgement, judgement, lodgement...


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UC wrote:
wrote:
"What other English words have three consonants in a row? "

"English", "words", "three", and "consonants", to list a few.

Jay

But 'dgm' is not the same thing. The 'e' is necessary to soften the
'dg'. We don't have 'managment', now do we?

abridgment, acknowledgment, judgment, lodgment...

American spelling was probably influenced by newspapers, who may have
come up with these to save space.


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For U.K. spelling you would be correct, for U.S. conventions the 'e'
appears to be dropped. Don't ask me why, I prefer to spell them with
an 'e' as well. Perhaps you should have distinguished between American
English and the ROTW.

UC wrote:
Nope:

abridgement, acknowledgement, judgement, lodgement...


wrote:
UC wrote:
wrote:
"What other English words have three consonants in a row? "

"English", "words", "three", and "consonants", to list a few.

Jay

But 'dgm' is not the same thing. The 'e' is necessary to soften the
'dg'. We don't have 'managment', now do we?

abridgment, acknowledgment, judgment, lodgment...

UC wrote:

Ever since, I have used the spelling 'judgement' out of spite. The
spelling 'judgment' just looks stupid to me. What English sound is made
by 'dgm'? What other English words have three consonants in a row?

"English" for one. "Contrast." And anything ending in -tch, -rch, or
-nch. "Diphthong" and "catchment" have four. There's gotta be one
with five around here somewhere.

A photographer like Nan Goldin represents a personal (to the point of
confessional) and self-conscious style that would be unfamiliar to a
previous generation of photojournalistic photographers, like the Magnum
group. (I mean "photojournalistic style photographers whose works also
get exhibited in galleries," whether or not either they or Goldin are
making art, reportage, or apple pies.) But Goldin's work is still very
much documentary in presentation. It's not disengaged nor is it
cool removed landscape study.

Conversely, Ansel Adams is revered as a god of landscape photography,
but some of the works that brought him to prominence were made with a
specific documentary intent, and a ideological point, to preserve the
natural settings he documented. (Specifically for the Sierra Club's
fight to keep Yosemite from going the way of the Hetch Hetchy.)
You could say that RIchard Misrach is doing that kind of work now.

There isn't a simple division between 1. gritty true documentary, and
2. well-worked but uncognizant of the modern world, beautiful
technically accomplished landscape. It's attractive to think that way,
and certainly I think that the latter seems more prominent in some
rec.photo groups, but it's a simplistic method. Parts of the one have
a way of sneaking into the other. I look forward to reading more of
that book.

Ben

P.S. "Postscript."

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UC wrote:

Ever since, I have used the spelling 'judgement' out of spite. The
spelling 'judgment' just looks stupid to me. What English sound is made
by 'dgm'? What other English words have three consonants in a row?

"English" for one. "Contrast." And anything ending in -tch, -rch, or
-nch. "Diphthong" and "catchment" have four. There's gotta be one
with five around here somewhere.

And darkroom types might be familiar with

phenolphthalein

with 5 consonants in a row.


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Jean-David Beyer wrote:
wrote:
UC wrote:

Ever since, I have used the spelling 'judgement' out of spite. The
spelling 'judgment' just looks stupid to me. What English sound is made
by 'dgm'? What other English words have three consonants in a row?

"English" for one. "Contrast." And anything ending in -tch, -rch, or
-nch. "Diphthong" and "catchment" have four. There's gotta be one
with five around here somewhere.

And darkroom types might be familiar with

phenolphthalein

with 5 consonants in a row.

WOW!

Of course, I am talking about the 'dg' being used by itself in
compounds, whereas the words containing it have the combination 'dge'.
THAT'S the issue.



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