-lge, -nge, -lk, -nk

Special thanks to Thomas Pacheco for funding this lesson.

This lesson covers how to write some words that otherwise wouldn't fit in steno order, including "bank", "milk", and "bulge".

-lge and -nge

Because -L and -PB share keys with the -J sound (-PBLG), we need to use a different pattern to write words ending in -lge and -nge, like "bulge" or "cringe". The solution is simple: just use -G for the -J sound:

• PWULG: bulge
• TKWULG: divulge

• KREUPBG: cringe
• TEUPBG: tinge
• HEUPBG: hinge

You'll have to exercise caution here, as these chords conflict with words ending in "ing", like "bing". If a word has a hard G sound, it will get the chord, and the soft G version will be writable by adding the asterisk:

• PWEUPBG: bing
• PW*EUPBG: binge

*G as -k

For the same reasons that we can't have -L and -PB and -J at the same time, we can't have them at the same time as the chord for -k (-BG). In order to get -nk and -lk, we add the asterisk:

• *ELG: elk
• *EULG: ilk
• PH*EULG: milk
• S*EULG: silk
• PW*ULG: bulk
• S*ULG: sulk

• *EUPBG: ink
• PWA*PBG: bank
• HR*EUPBG: link
• P*EUPBG: pink
• P*UPBG: punk
• TP*UPBG: funk
• HA*PBG: Hank
• KRA*PBG: crank
• RA*PBG: rank
• SHR*APBG: shrank
• SKU*PBG: skunk
• PWHR*EUPBG: blink
• TKR*UPBG: drunk

Briefs

Chord	Translation	Notes
THAPBG	thank
THAPBGS	thanks
TPRAPBG	frank
TPRA*PBG	Frank
SHRAO*EPBG	slink	"Sling" and "shrink" occupy the intuitive options for this stroke, so we change the vowel to a tense E sound in order to at least have a way to write it. If you wrote "slink" much more frequently than "shrink" you could swap these definitions.
KHOL	alcohol
KHO*LG	alcoholic