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There are English dialects where the "g" sound is present - especially in the Northwest of England (think Mancunian, like Brian Cox, or Liverpudlian, like the B
by stan_rogers 7y ago
There are English dialects where the "g" sound is present - especially in the Northwest of England (think Mancunian, like Brian Cox, or Liverpudlian, like the Beatles in full-Scouse, lovable mop-tops mode). It's also prevalent among Yiddish-influenced speakers in the US (although that's mostly died out now).
- wirrbel 7y agoIt even makes sense, because you do pronounce the g in words like "finger", it just becomes silent at the end of the word. In German "ng" is always without a distinct g-sound (like German "Finger", or its n and g like "Ungeheuer")
- lqet 7y ago> In German "ng" is always without a distinct g-sound (like German "Finger", or its n and g like "Ungeheuer") Depends on the dialect. For example, older speakers of Swabian may totally say "Feng-ger" to "Finger", as opposed to the more "modern" Swabian variant of "Fenger".
- petecox 7y agoWikipedia calls it 'ng coalescence'. "This means that the words finger and singer do not rhyme in most modern varieties of English, although they did in Middle English." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonological_history_of_English_consonant_clusters#NG-coalescence https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonological_history_of_Engl...
- rootbear 7y agoMy chorus director in college was always trying to get us to not use the /g/ when singing German. He often used the finger/singer analogy to explain the difference.
- bgeeek 7y agoI would say it is used everywhere in the UK, more so in the midlands - try the Birmingham accent.
- kragen 7y agoNot in word-final position, no, except (as noted by some commenters) through liaison with an initial vowel in the following word — an "intrusive g" phenomenon similar to the "intrusive r" found in many non-rhotic dialects.