Stonehenge
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English
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[edit]Inherited from Middle English Stonhenge, from ston (“stone”) + henge (“hinge”) or hengen ("hanging", but only attested as "imprisonment"). More at Stonehenge on Wikipedia.Wikipedia .
The failure of /hɛnd͡ʒ/ to regularly raise to /ɪnd͡ʒ/, as in hinge, singe < Middle English henge, sengen, is probably due to the influence of the local dialect; compare the forms /ɛnd͡ʒ/, /sɛnd͡ʒ/ "hinge, singe" attested for the early 20th-century dialect of Pewsey, Wiltshire,[1] approximately 18.5 kilometres (11.5 miles) from Stonehenge.
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[edit]Stonehenge
- An ancient group of standing stones on Salisbury Plain in Amesbury parish, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU1242).
- A number of localities elsewhere:
- The Rural Municipality of Stonehenge No. 73, a rural municipality in south Saskatchewan, Canada.
- A town in Saint James parish, Jamaica.
- A locality in Australia:
- A rural locality on the Northern Tablelands, New South Wales.
- An outback town in the Shire of Barcoo, Queensland.
- A rural locality in Toowoomba Region, Queensland.
- A rural locality in Southern Midlands council area, Tasmania.
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[edit]ancient group of standing stones in England
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[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English Stonehenge.
Proper noun
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- Stonehenge (ancient group of standing stones in England)
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