2007-08-28 07:17:13 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
You can always double-check by looking it up in the dictionary and seeing the phonetic spelling and pronunciation, but i am sure that the "g" is slightly pronounced. If you completely ignore it, you end up with a pronunciation of "keen" instead of "king". Do you know what I mean?
2007-08-28 07:27:45 · answer #1 · answered by froggsfriend 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on where you're from.
Most dialects of English pronounce the end with what's known as a velar nasal stop, which is all one sound, the middle sound of the word "singer". I think that might be what you're talking about when you say pronounce the "g" a little. It's produced exactly like the normal "n" but with the tongue placed farther back in the mouth.
However, many places in the American South don't pronounce the nasal as a velar at the end of words. In these dialects, it's pronounced with a regular "n" (not really the same, but close enough for our purposes), and comes out more like the word "keen". And some parts of the UK, New England, and the Maritime Provinces in Canada will overpronounce the "g", pronouncing both the "ng" sound I mentioned above and a hard "g" following it.
So really, it's all about geography.
2007-08-28 15:18:26 · answer #2 · answered by Expat Mike 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The ng sound is considered a sound on its own, rather than a combination of n and g. If you try saying nnnn without letting your tongue touch the back of your teeth, you should get more or less the right sound.
However, people from Lancashire in England quite often pronounce the g sound so it would sound like kin-ga ( or sin-ga, or son-ga).
2007-08-28 14:36:46 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
This depends on the accent and/or dialect of the speaker. In standard English, the "ng" sound at the end of the word is a nasal sound distinct from either the 'n' or 'g' sound. In some dialects, it is completed with a hard 'g' and a slight schwa sound after it.
2007-08-28 16:20:15 · answer #4 · answered by dansinger61 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
slightly pronounced
2007-08-28 14:22:00 · answer #5 · answered by askannie123 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is voiced. If it helps, King rhymes with sing, ring, thing. All have the "ing" sound.
:)
2007-08-28 14:22:04 · answer #6 · answered by searching_please 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is soft, like the g in thing. Not hard, like the g in goat.
2007-08-28 14:22:10 · answer #7 · answered by hottotrot1_usa 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it is definitely not ignored
2007-08-28 14:21:08 · answer #8 · answered by Landis 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your retarded.King without the G will be kin(Ke-eN).
2007-08-28 14:26:00 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋