Re: Phonetic question

"Dan Rempel" wrote ...
> Paul Blay wrote:
> 
> > "Dan Rempel" wrote ...
> >
> >>Not an exception, but an observation: I think you're confusing spelling
> >>and pronunciation. Singer is /sing-er/ (ng = velar nasal);  finger is
> >>/fing-ger/. Does that make sense?
> >
> > It may make sense, but that taint the way _I_ hear myself saying it.
> >
> > It seems to me to be approximately /sin-ger/ /fin-ger/ or /sin-guh/ /fin-guh/
> > depending on the whim of the moment.  However perceptions are always
> > the problem - ideally someone should ambush me with a tape recorder and
> > an oscilloscope.  (I suspect I don't sound the same when I _know_ I'm
> > being recorded).
> 
> Ok, that doesn't happen in my dialect, but I probably need to get out
> more; where are you from?

Berkshire.  My dad used to have a really deep country accent, but I always 
thought I was fairly boring SE standard - except for an inability to keep th 
separated from v in vis, vat and ve other word.  (I blame that on my mother*).


* Eiver vat or ve forces of ve night.