æ or ö), or between a vowel and a voice consonant or two voice consonants; 2) at the end of words after a long vowel or a voice consonant; Ex.: bage to bake, vige to yield, sluge to devour, kogle to charm, vaagne to awaken, Mængde quantity.
Note 1. For g serving as orthographical sign of the sound i in diphthongs see § 28.
g represents this sound 1) after the vowels open e or ö before l or n or before a termination commencing with unstressed ə; 2) in the end of words after a short open e, æ or ö; Ex.: Nögle (öj) key, Egn (aj) region, jeg (aj) I, Leg (aj) play, meget (ajət) much, legede (ajə) played; 3) in the pronouns mig me, dig thee, you, sig him (her) self (pron. maj etc.). (Colloquially these pronouns are when unstressed pronounced jə, mə, də, sə, and in church oratory and recitations the three last mentioned may be pronounced as written mig, dig, sig, but that is never the case with jeg). In stead of dejg dough, feig cowardly, sejg tough the official orthography now is dej, fej, sej.
Note 2. g serves as the sign of the sound w in diphthongs (see § 28) after the sound å written o) in: Rogn spawn, Sogn parish, Vogn wagon. (In stead of the former spelling, Laug guild, Saug saw, taug was silent, Ploug plough, Toug rope, there is now generally written Lav, Sav, tav, Plov, Tov. Wholly antiquated is the spelling Hauge for Have garden).
56. In common every day pronunciation g is often dropped: 1) after long u in slu(g)e to devour, su(g)e to suck, Ku(g)le bullet, Fu(g)l fowl, (the g was in these cases first assimilated to u and then dropped); 2) after long i in: li(g)e straight, direct, Pi(g)e girl, si(g)e to say, Skri(g) cry etc. (g in these cases was assimilated to j and then dropped); 3) after l and r: sæl(g)e to sell; spör(g)e to ask; impf. sol(g)te sold, spur(g)te (sporte) asked, dul(g)te concealed; 4) In ta(ge)r takes, ta(ge) to take, to(g) took, slo(g) struck, la(gde) laid.
57. The r commonly used by educated Danes is the untrilled back or throat r, produced by raising the back of the tongue towards the roof of the pharynx; this r is as a rule voiced, but it is voiceless after aspirated stops; it is never vo-
