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pronunciation - How to pronounce '-ing' followed by a vowel


I'm getting into English recently and I'm a little confused by the way people pronounce a word that starts in a vowel right after a word ending in -ing.


For example:



You have to bring it up now?



I don't know if I should pronounce it as:



  1. bring /ŋit/

  2. brin' /nit/

  3. bring /git/


Another example would be "I'm coming out".


Likewise, what about the ending -ang? For example:



We can just hang out and have a good time.



And to round it all up, what about a combination of the two? For example,



He got sick of hanging around waiting for you and went home.



I've been asking myself these questions for weeks.



Answer



Some English accents pronounce the g on the end of words like bring (even without a word following). The BrE Birmingham/Black Country accent can do this, for example, and I’m sure there are others. In this case, bring it would be pronounced /briŋgit/.


“Standard” English pronunciation does not insert the final /g/ and would use /briŋit/.


The same applies to all words ending /ŋ/ followed by a vowel.


Where the final g is pronounced, it can be inserted in other cases too: “speaking Latin” would not have an /iŋgl/ in the middle in Standard English pronunciation but it could well do so in an accent which normally pronounces the final g.


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