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POLL: It’s Time To End Malta’s Raging Debate – Is It Pronounced Dnegel Or Dneġel?

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Malta experienced a once-in-a-lifetime event this week – no, not that record-breaking medicane that literally destroyed restaurants, kiosks, clubs and fish farms over the weekend, but the heralding of Malta’s new favourite compliment.

Dnegel is here, and it isn’t going away anytime soon, with companies co-opting the word in their advertisements, an actual Xarabank slot dedicated to it and a national consensus that last weekend’s storm should be named Medicane Dnegel.

However, there has not been consensus on one very important thing: how to pronounce the actual word

Is it Dnegel with a hard ‘g’, like in garden? Or is it a soft ‘g’, like in legend. There’s only one way to find out: you must decide.

Tag someone who has feelings about Dnegel

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Johnathan is an award-winning Maltese journalist interested in social justice, politics, minority issues, music and food. Follow him at @supreofficialmt on Instagram, and send him news, food and music stories at [email protected]

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