But some are rather lacking before a velar nasal in English. The
sequence /eN/ is rather artificial in English (I take issue with J.D.
O'Connor here, while using his evidence) - it occurs in _dreng_, as a
borrowing from Old English, but the regularly derived form is dialect
_dring_.
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What about <length> and <strength>, two common words? I think only a fairly small minority of people pronounce them as /lEnT/,
/strEnT/ with dental /n/. I can't remember hearing those pronunciations for probably the last twenty years, whether in my city, when travelling, on TV, or in movies. I think a considerable majority of people pronounce them /lENT/ and /strENT/ or as /lENkT/ and /strENkT/ with velar /N/.
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