How To Pronounce Thing
thing
UK
Phonemic
/θɪŋ/
Phonetic
[θɪ̃ŋ]
US
Phonemic
/θɪŋ/
In British English, thing is pronounced /θɪŋ/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [θɪ̃ŋ]. In American English, it is pronounced /θɪŋ/.
Thing has one syllable. British and American speakers say it the same way.
Slashes / / show the phonemic transcription, the sounds that change meaning. Square brackets [ ] show the phonetic transcription, with the finer detail of how the sounds are actually made.
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