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pronunciation - Difference between ŋ and n - English Language . . . 5 Yes, native speakers can tell the difference But, Mandarin has both of these sounds: ŋ is the sound that is written with ng in Pinyin (e g at the end of 龙 龍 lóng) n is the sound that is written with n in Pinyin at the beginning of syllables (e g at the start of 南 nán)
pronunciation - Why do we write -ɪŋ instead of -iŋ ? - English . . . Links Some previous posts about this topic on Stack Exchange: i sound before “ng” and “nk” Why is ɪŋk used with “ink” words when the actual pronunciation is ijŋk ? Regarding the “i” in “think” vs “bit” Pronunciation of '-ing' endings as '-een' Links to blog posts about this topic:
What are the combinations of ch, sh, th, wh, ph called in the . . . Hm, I would still distinguish between some of these, that are just the sounds of the two consonants “flowed together,” as in bl or gr or whatever, while others are distinctly separate (“single”?) sounds different somewhat from the sounds of the constituent letters, as in ch, ng, ph, sh, and th Would there be a term, perhaps, that is specific to the latter?
What is the meaning of the ` cya` and `gng`? - slang You can probably find a definition for cya online Here's Wiktionary's, for example: (Internet slang) Alternative spelling of see ya But gng might be harder to find It's a simple non-standard abbreviation of going, created by removing the vowel letters
Why do some people like use in to symbolize ing? The standard pronunciation of "-ing" uses a ŋ sound (not ng ) In most dialects, this sound is very close to n and in casual speech ŋ tends to get pronounced as n To indicate this casual pronunciation, it is quite common to spell with "in" and an apostrophe I'm lookin' at you This is sometimes called "eye-dialect" You deliberately spell a word as it is pronounced in a particular
Do we ever pronounce g in ing - example going out The spelling ‹ng› almost never † involves the sound g ‹ng› is a 'digraph' (like ‹th›)—in almost all cases it represents the sound ŋ , the consonant at the end of sing, hang, long So there is no actual g sound in the -ing suffix In speech, however, pronunciation alternates between "standard" ŋ and a more casual n
pronunciation - English Language Learners Stack Exchange There is no letter to represent ŋ in English, it is represented by "ng", and n is represented by "n" so omitting the g in writing implies the change of sound It is sometimes called "g-dropping" (by analogy with h-dropping, and in reference to the spelling) although no actual "g" sound is lost, instead ŋ becomes n
Job was completed, job has completed and job has been completed? It's a very minor mistake that does have a twinge of ESL learner to it, if only because it implies a level of detachment that may be accidental 'Completed' without 'has been' or 'was' implies that you care more about the status of the lawn than about the people that mowed it If I hired a service to mow my lawn every Thursday while I'm at work and I don't know any of the workers by name, this