On Thu, 21 May 2015, alexander koryagin wrote to mark lewis:   
      
    ak>> My Oxford dictionary can pronounce words, but I still cannot find    
    ak>> "the quite difference" between sinner and singer.   
      
    ml> as in the definitions?   
      
    ak> The main problem IMHO in the nasal sound in "ing". Which many    
    ak> pronounce very close to "in".   
      
   ahh, yes... that's another 'g' that gets ""swallowed""... by "swallowed" i   
   mean left out/off... in other words, not fully pronounced...   
      
   some of these pronounciation and enunciation problems are hearing related...   
   at some point, someone wasn't able to fully hear the sounds so they repeated   
   what they did hear... when they had children, their children learned from them   
   and they, too, repeated what they heard which wasn't everything they should   
   have been hearing... if the children also had hearing problems, the   
   ""muffling"" of the sounds was more... it traveled through the generations   
   like this...   
      
   eg:   
   rabbit and wabbit   
   spaghetti and pasghetti   
   whats and wuz   
   with and wit or wid    (wuz up wit'cho? wus up wid you?)   
      
      
   some use the phrase "mouth full of rocks" to describe the problem...   
      
   )\/(ark   
      
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