[Ads-l] Fixing "ng" and "nk" endings
Herb Stahlke
hfwstahlke at GMAIL.COM
Tue Jan 22 01:21:37 UTC 2019
We've discussed this before. Both forms exist in spoken American English.
In my Inland Northern speech, the vowel is short.
Herb
On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 6:59 PM Tom Zurinskas <truespel at hotmail.com> wrote:
> There is a common dictionary error showing a short vowel prior to "ng" and
> "nk" word endings when they actually are pronounce "long"
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0hyN-0Z5ic The free converter at
> truespel.com fixes this.
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> Tom Zurinskas,
> Originally SWConn 20 yrs, college Tenn 3, work NJ 33, now FL 16
> truespel phonetics free converter and tutorials - http://truespel.com
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