What the heck? I thought the 'g' was silent?

>>9373767
At least now you know why everyone called you retard in middle school

Why would it be silent? It's a form of the Latin prefix in-, like il-, im-, ir-.

Inorance is bliss.

>>9374008
I fucking love you, anon.

>>9373989
Please don't post again

>>9374008
kek

>>9374057
Why? What I said is correct. It's from the Latin word ignobilis. Lewis & Short definition shows it is a variant of in-: "ignōbĭlis, e, adj. in-nobilis (gno-)"

>>9373767
Did you think it was eyenoble? Eenoble? In-oble?

>>9373767
Jesus Christ.

>>9373767
Name one word that starts with an I and is followed by a silent g

>>9374068
because your douche ass assumed that he should know latin. Considering that we assume you're rational enough to realize most people don't know latin then it means you're being condescending on an internet board because you know latin prefixes, and hence are annoying and autistic. Why would you know that though? You're autistic

>>9374106
I remember doing worksheets on Latin prefixes in middle school. It's common knowledge that most two or three letter prefixes in English are of Latin origin and that those prefixes come in several combining forms. In-, Im-, etc. meaning negation is arguably the most well-known.

>>9373767
Prefixes are never silent as far as I know.
I honestly don't think a 'g' can be silent, it can sound a bit different in a digraph, but I don't think it's ever silent in English.
One might argue that it is silent in words like 'bough', although 'bough' is pronounced like 'bow' the weapon, whereas 'bouh' or simply 'bou' would seem to be pronounced like 'bow' like 'bow-wow'.
>>9374123
Un- is Germanic, though, and that is a negation.
Don't try to systematize English, all that have tried, have failed.

>>9374106
You don't need to know Latin because the prefix in- is used regularly in many English words. The ig- form also shows up in ignore, ignominy, etc. The silent "g" before an "n" occurs due to an initial consonant combination that is not natural to English, in which case the first consonant is generally not pronounced; e.g. gnostic, cthonic, tmesis, bdellium.

>>9374068
FUck you and you pig-latin speak, homebody