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By any chance, was your friend Italian? I distinctly remember some Italian speakers I've met pronouncing it exactly like that, "goiŋ-guh". Probably because they
by thewarpaint 7y ago
By any chance, was your friend Italian? I distinctly remember some Italian speakers I've met pronouncing it exactly like that, "goiŋ-guh". Probably because they're used to most words ending in a vowel.
- combatentropy 7y agoNo, she was from a small southern town. She wasn't trying to pronounce the final vowel, just the final g. But it's impossible to say a full g without a small uh sound. It was slight, like a pop. The irony is, she tried so hard to say the g without making too much of it, that she often removed its voice. The unvoiced g is k. So, most of the time she ended up saying goink.
- skrebbel 7y ago> No, she was from a small southern town. Southern where? So far I've able to deduct not Italy, probably native English speaking, somewhere south. So South Africa? But then why be cryptic about it?
- atorodius 7y agoparent probably meant southern US
- combatentropy 7y agoSorry, I meant the southern United States. What is the term for when you're talking on the Internet and forget that you might be talking to someone halfway around the world?