how do ya guys pronounce 'beg'

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0this word rly confuss me cuz i hv checked out the pronounciation of 'beg'.it surprised me tat 'beg' pronounce as 'bek'  in IPA.tat should be pronounce as jz like 'back' in general.Can anyone sort my problem out?0-

Francesca · Accepted Answer

0Hello Jeffrey, I've always pronounced back and beg in 2 different ways and according to my dictionary they have a different pronunciation:02br
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00back [bæk]02br
00beg [beg]02br
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00Anyway, sorry for my ignorance: what's that IPA? 050010id37

Kooyeen · Answer

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01cite10Francesca12cite10Anyway, sorry for my ignorance: what's that IPA? 15012blockquote

10LOL, It's more or like saying "Two plus two is four, but I don't know what an addiction is"... Cesca, you already know IPA, you used in you answer! 05102br
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00back [bæk]02br
00beg [beg]02br
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00Those symbols you wrote are phonetic transcriptions in IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet), and they are correct. So you actually used IPA without knowing it was called IPA, LOL. 05200 So Jeffrey, as you see, they are actually different. If you don't know how to read IPA transcriptions, you can hear the pronunciation on the Merriam-Webster website. 053010id3711id412id513id1

Marvin A. · Answer

0 Well yes back is always /bæk/ in NAE. "Beg" is more variable. Some people have tense-lax neutralization before /g/. According to Wikipedia: "Some examples of neutralization of /ɛ/ to /eɪ/ before /ɡ/ are beg, egg, Greg, keg, leg and peg's coming to rhyme with Craig, Hague, plague and vague."02br
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00Other dialects keep the vowel in beg distinct from the vowel in vague. I merge /E/ /e/ and /{/ (ash) before /g/, so "beg", "bag", and "vague" all have the same vowel sound: something like [ e ] . Not everyone here does that however, but almost everyone (here) pronounces "beg" and "bag" with the same vowel.02br
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00Conservative General American, however, has /bEg/ for beg--the same "e" sound as in "bed".02br
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00The only dialects that will devoice the /g/ in "beg" are certain Upper Midwestern dialects with heavy German influence. That pronunciation is certainly not considered standard. 0-

Francesca · Answer

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01cite10Kooyeen12cite11blockquote
11cite20Francesca22cite20Anyway, sorry for my ignorance: what's that IPA? 25022blockquote
20Those symbols you wrote are phonetic transcriptions in IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet), and they are correct. So you actually used IPA without knowing it was called IPA, LOL. 15112br
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10I've always told everyone that I'm not good at acronyms 05200 Thanks for your explanation!010id3711id512id4

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