Talk:tongue

Does anybody really say /tɒŋ/? — lexicógrafa | háblame — 17:03, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

Apparently yes. It's listed in my dictionary as the only spelling. -- Prince Kassad 17:10, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

What dictionary? All the ones I have checked say just /tʌŋ/. — lexicógrafa | háblame — 17:17, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

/tɒŋ/ is of the pronunciations for tong, not tongue. --Mahmudmasri 22:56, 25 October 2011 (UTC)

Is /tɒŋɡ/ the pronunciation used by Keith O'Hare in this video (at 1:09 minutes)? 86.199.179.222 07:24, 21 July 2021 (UTC)

Yes, despite his accent being very nearly RP he’s from Manchester and is using a regional pronunciation for this word. The regional breakdown is as follows: in Staffordshire, the East Midlands and the North of England people say ‘tong’, in most places in the West Midlands outside/South of Staffordshire they say ‘toong’ (with the ‘foot’ vowel - this is the standard pronunciation in Birmingham, Coventry and much of Warwickshire for example); in the South of England and the rest of the world it’s ‘tung’. I’m not as certain about Wales, Scotland and Ireland but I think all of Wales apart from the extreme North East (where they sound like scousers and say ‘tong’) say ‘tung’, Scotland says ‘tung’ and Ireland says ‘toong’. I often tease my Staffordshire dad about how he says this word but then he mocks how I say ‘tooth’ in a Brummie (and South East Walian) way, in other words with the FOOT-vowel. Overlordnat1 (talk) 18:22, 19 November 2021 (UTC)

Picture

Do we really need the picture? I do not see any informative value, and the intense red frankly distracts me when I try to concentrate on the text. --Mlewan (talk) 21:07, 12 May 2019 (UTC)

I removed the picture for now. --Mlewan (talk) 06:21, 23 May 2019 (UTC)