How do we pronounce our ship name?

What I find interesting is that so many of us jumped to the same seemingly incorrect "bangle" pronunciation...btw, in my head Cangel rhymes with Bangle, and it sounds a lot like cankles. 🙂 Spoofies and Cankles!
 
Willow My Love said:
b-AY-n-jul. That's how I pronounce it. I put the emphasis on the AY.
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See, no that just sounds weird.

arabella said:
What I find interesting is that so many of us jumped to the same seemingly incorrect "bangle" pronunciation...btw, in my head Cangel rhymes with Bangle, and it sounds a lot like cankles. 🙂 Spoofies and Cankles!
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lol, I pronounce Cangel like that too (& Dangel come to think of it). And now I will never see Spuffy without thinking "Spoooooofy!!". 😀

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And yes, I'm so glad that I'm not the only dweeb!
 
Willow My Love said:
I don't see how. It's Buffy and Angel put together. I don't see how 'bangle' makes sense. It's using Angel's name with the 'B' from Buffy to make Bangel, yeah? A hard 'g' there doesn't fit.
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When your brain encounters a novel word, it is not uncommon to reference existing words for pronunciation however erroneous the connection may be. Obviously the way that you are saying Bangel makes more sense but that word does not exist in my word bank and bangles does so my brain decided many, many years ago that it was Bangle and so it shall ever be 🙂
 
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brinkster130
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I thought everybody pronounced it with a soft G, because the G is followed by an E. If it's a hard G, it should be written like this: Bangle.
 
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Willow My Love
Yet another reason why my mind goes with the g as a j sound.
sosa lola said:
I thought everybody pronounced it with a soft G, because the G is followed by an E. If it's a hard G, it should be written like this: Bangle.
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I don't think so...the l on the end would make it be pronounced Bang-el

I would pronounce Bange (if it was a word) with a j sound but not Bangel.
 
Darla said:
I don't think so...the l on the end would make it be pronounced Bang-el

I would pronounce Bange (if it was a word) with a j sound but not Bangel.
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But, Angel is already pronounced with a soft G and it has an L in the end. While the word "angle" is pronounced with a hard G because the L comes before the E. English is my second language, but I was taught that soft G always has an E or an I after it.
 
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I would say it depends on what the root of the word is, what language it derived from. I'm not a linguist but all I can say is when I look at the word "Bangel" I don't see angel with a b on it. *shrugs*

There is really no right or wrong way, since it's a made up written word. I guess if you tracked down the first person who wrote it, you could ask them.
 
Darla said:
There is really no right or wrong way, since it's a made up written word. I guess if you tracked down the first person who wrote it, you could ask them.
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Challenge accepted!

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Just kidding of course, that'd be some challenge I'm sure 😉
 
I'm in my final year of an English and Education degree, and I've done quite a few modules on phonics and linguistics. I think I can say with some certainty that "Bangel" would be pronounced "baaaynjul", because if the letter after the "g" is an "i", a "e" or a "y", it is pronounced softly, whereas if it's anything else, including a space, it's pronounced as a hard "g", like in "bangle".

There are a couple of words that are irregular, like "gill" in terms of a fish. I wouldn't say "Bangel" is irregular though, because of the word "angel".
 
castnoshadow said:
I'm in my final year of an English and Education degree, and I've done quite a few modules on phonics and linguistics. I think I can say with some certainty that "Bangel" would be pronounced "baaaynjul", because if the letter after the "g" is an "i", a "e" or a "y", it is pronounced softly, whereas if it's anything else, including a space, it's pronounced as a hard "g", like in "bangle".

There are a couple of words that are irregular, like "gill" in terms of a fish. I wouldn't say "Bangel" is irregular though, because of the word "angel".
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But the word "bangle" does exist in English, "bangel" does not (except for we fans), so it's not so strange for us to jump from an unknown word to a pronunciation of a word that's very similar.
 
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VisionGirl said:
But the word "bangle" does exist in English, "bangel" does not (except for we fans), so it's not so strange for us to jump from an unknown word to a pronunciation of a word that's very similar.
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I'm not disputing that, regardless of whether a word is in the dictionary or not you can guess how it can be pronounced based on preexisting grammatical rules, is all I'm saying.

Pronounce it however you see best. 🙂
 
castnoshadow said:
I'm not disputing that, regardless of whether a word is in the dictionary or not you can guess how it can be pronounced based on preexisting grammatical rules, is all I'm saying.

Pronounce it however you see best. 🙂
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Oh, I totally get what you're saying!

It's interesting how our brains pronounced a new word like that on sight without hearing it first, and how we all came to two different conclusions about how to say it!
 
I think that depending on where you're from however, the grammatical rules are different, Germany would pronounce the word with a hard "g", making it sound like "Baaayngel".
 
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pronouncing it as a German word would sound like "BUNG-uhl" ;)
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