2012年3月1日 · The "-in" sound is simply easier to enunciate than the "-ing" sound. So, when we speak more carelessly and less eloquently, the "-ing" sound inadvertantly morphs into the easier "-in".

2016年12月4日 · A suffix -ing with a velar consonant did exist, but it was used for forming verbal nouns. (Actually, -ing was itself a merger of an older suffix -ing that appeared on some grammatically masculine nouns, and a suffix -ung that …

Something funny happens to short i in some California accents; what most of us pronounce as short i (as in sit or king) turns into long e (as in seat or keen) when it's before an "nk" or an "ng". So ink would be pronounced eenk in these accents. But this is a regional thing, established in California, Michigan, and probably several other regions of …

I believe that those saying that “ing” should be represented by /ɪŋ/ are focused on the duration of the vowel sound. So, just write /iŋ/ and leave out the double dots, giving you the shorter length but the typical “e-letter-name” sound.

2018年2月16日 · The ‑ing verbal inflection ending is, in the abstract, a phonemic /ɪŋ/. Those phonemes usually get realized phonetically as literally the sounds [ɪŋ] in General American, and this is the way it seems to be pronounced by most Americans. Even so, there are many Americans I’ve heard pronounce the ‑ing ending as [əŋ].

2022年6月9日 · Can you elaborate on that view? Do scholars tend to take that view? Is the present participle ending in English 'ing' historically in Germanic a consonant cluster /n/ or /ŋ/ followed by /g/?

Modern English has two grammatical forms ending -ing, one a verbal noun (eg I like swimming) and the other a participle, or verbal adjective (eg I thought about it while swimming), but historically the latter derives from a form in -en, and has fallen together with the other form; so some confusion between /ɪn/ and /ɪŋ/ goes right back ...

2021年6月25日 · @Lambie no one pronounces ing as "nga." It's more like ing-g, or ink with a slight vocalization of the final G sound. This is definitely present in some Long Island speakers.

I'm getting into English recently and I'm a little confused by the way people pronounce a word that starts in a vowel right after a word ending in -ing. For example: You have to bring it up no...

2024年3月3日 · Examples to make my point clear: A dog is crying Oh it's dying You see here the ending two sounds are the same (the sound of y /aɪ/and the sound of ing /ŋ/). Then I got confused when I read a poem that have similar endings of one sound only. Example 1: A free bird leaps A caged one stacks See here only the s sound is repeated.