(11-03-2025, 09:46 PM)Koen G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Strong disagree here. In your example, words like singer, singing, slings, brings, bringing, bringer, winged... Would all be difficult to form. Let alone the fact that EVA-n would be more akin to the "g" in your example. "G" appears all over the place in English.
I'm afraid I don't understand what you disagree with and what your examples are supposed to show. I can run the numbers on some corpus, but I doubt it will disprove that "ing" in English mostly appears at the end of words. Every single one of your examples actually supports this, all of these words are made by adding a suffix to some common word that ends in "ing", producing a somewhat less common word not ending in "ing". There are words like "inglorious" or "ginger" that have a proper internal "ing", but these are quite rare, I think.
I never said that "ing" only happens at the end of words in English, if that is what you are trying to disprove.
I'm not sure what EVA-n has to do with this.