However, the wacky alphabetisation thing is a nuisance, and not as straightforward as you might think either, since NG is not always a letter but sometimes the conjunction of a (morphologically separate) N and G, which might be pronounced separately in careful speech (just as in English “ng” can represent either /ŋ/ or /ng~/ŋg/), or then again might not.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crossword puzzle | Linguism] Reference