I love how anger rhymes with danger.
And why doesn’t the dictionary give the pronunciation as “danj-rous” at least as optional? “Dane-jer-ous” works too but you know….
We can’t find a J+R word officially. But Dragon “jragun” and Graduation “gra ju a tion” and Schedule “sked-jule” are fun words… two with the jr sound.
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I've thought before that maybe Reckless was related to Reckon, but apparently not. Read up on some really well-written and funny stuff here on those words plus rack, wrack, wreck, etc.
https://sesquiotic.com/2025/02/18/reckless-wreck-wrack-rack-reckon/
"By the way, reckon comes from an old Germanic word for calculating. If you’ve ever been to a restaurant in Germany or Austria, you probably know that die Rechnung is the bill, and if Rechnung seems similar to reckoning, it is; they’re parallel descendants of the same original morphemes."
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