[General] How to pronounce bringing correctly?

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My roommate and I are discussing the pronunciation of 'bringing'.

I prefer to pronounce it as bring-ning, and his way is bring-ing.

My logic is based on ringing being said as ring-ning, and his is singing is sing-ing, not sing-ning.

Both of us are confused. Thank you in advance.
 

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The correct pronunciation is /ˈbrɪŋ ɪŋ/. Notice that [ng] is nasalized.

Source: Longman Pronunciation Dictionary
 

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My roommate and I are discussing the pronunciation of 'bringing'.

I prefer to pronounce it as bring-ning, and his way is bring-ing.

My logic is based on ringing being said as ring-ning, and his is singing is sing-ing, not sing-ning.

Both of us are confused. Thank you in advance.

Hi LiuJing,

The correct pronunciation for both ringing and singing is 'ring-ing' and 'sing-ing' respectively. There is no 'n' sound after ring or sing.

Hope this helps.
 

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Hi LiuJing,

The correct pronunciation for both ringing and singing is 'ring-ing' and 'sing-ing' respectively. There is no 'n' sound after ring or sing.

Hope this helps.
I agree. In fact, there is no /n/ sound at all in these words, as illustrated in the above phonetic transcription.
/n/ is pronounced with the tongue on the alveolar ridge. The tongue goes nowhere near here when saying 'bringing'.
 

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I agree. In fact, there is no /n/ sound at all in these words, as illustrated in the above phonetic transcription.
/n/ is pronounced with the tongue on the alveolar ridge. The tongue goes nowhere near here when saying 'bringing'.
There are n sounds in "ringing" and "singing", at least in North American English. Otherwise the pronunciations would be 'rigig' and 'sigig'.
 
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The n in the ng combo is not the same as plain n, though.

It's neither brigging nor brinning.

And it's certainly not bring-ning.
 

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There are n sounds in "ringing" and "singing", at least in North American English. Otherwise the pronunciations would be 'rigig' and 'sigig'.
/ [FONT=&quot]ŋ[/FONT]/ is a velar nasal. It's a separate phonetic sound from /n/, and does not contain an alveolar nasal (/n/). 'ringing' has two / [FONT=&quot]ŋ[/FONT]/, two 'I' and an /r/, as in the transciption that xpert has posted. If you look closely, you'll see there is no /n/. In fact, if you say /n/ several times, and then say "ringing', you'll see that /n/ doesn't enter into it. Nor, as Barb rightly says, does /g/.
I'm trying to say an /n/ sound with 'ringing', but it's impossible.
If you can do it, can you post a sound file?
 

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/ [FONT=&quot]ŋ[/FONT]/ is a velar nasal. It's a separate phonetic sound from /n/, and does not contain an alveolar nasal (/n/). 'ringing' has two / [FONT=&quot]ŋ[/FONT]/, two 'I' and an /r/, as in the transciption that xpert has posted. If you look closely, you'll see there is no /n/. In fact, if you say /n/ several times, and then say "ringing', you'll see that /n/ doesn't enter into it.
No one is saying that the n sound in those words is the same as what one hears when the alphabet n is recited.
Nor, as Barb rightly says, does /g/. I don't know that Barb said that.
Again, the 'ng' sound is very different from that of isolated n and g sounds said in sequence. But there are variants of n and g sounds in those words.
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[FONT=&quot]Well, if you want to call /θ/ and /ð/ variants of /t/, and /ʃ/ a variant of /s/, I can see your point. But I disagree. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]These are not allophones: they are not variants of the same sound. If you replaced [/FONT] [FONT=&quot]/ŋ/ with /n/ or /ng/ you would often get a different word. They are different phonemes.
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[FONT=&quot]'Finger' and 'linger' have /g/ sounds in them, but 'singer' and springer don't.
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[FONT=&quot]So there is also no /t/ sound in ‘both’ or ‘other’ and there’s no /s/ sound in “shot” (as they are normally pronounced). [/FONT]
 
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