gangers...?

[joko]

when i say this word i say gang- gers... pronoucing the middle g very definitely, but wtaching dr who confidential, most (from the south mostly) are pronoucing it is a way that almost doesnt sound the g properly, ...i cannot write it down because its more of back of the throat sound

anyone know what i mean?

is there a name for this...its not a glottal stop..
cheers

[bednobs]

they are using it in the german sense of doppleganger, which is pronounced more liker "gang - ers" not "gang-gers"

[joko]

they are both the same...i was using the g to emphasise that i sound out the g..not saying i almost say it twice.

its a kind of back of the throat sound...

i would say doppelgangers the same way

[bednobs]

then sorry i can't answer your question. When i say "gang -ers" out loud there is no noise in the back of my throat

[ABerrant]

The hard 'g' sound is the voiced velar plosive, produced at the back of the tongue and directed through the mouth.
The softer 'ng' is the velar nasal, produced at the back of the tongue and directed through the nose. It is commonly found in English words such as sing, wing, ring.

Some northern dialects append a hard 'g' to these words, e.g. sing-g, wing-g ,ring-g.

Up North singer (sing-ger) etc. sounds like finger (fing-ger) but down South singer is just singer (sing-er).

[alexanderd]

dont know what you mean by "up north" AB but here in the north east it isnt like finger, just singer

[ABerrant]

lankasheer

[alexanderd]

Ah well, wrong side of the country

[joko]

thats a good example aberrant - you would not use this sound when you say finger at all
...or bingo

and you are right, in the north its always the hard g. i am in liverpool but i cant think of any other northern accent that would use the soft one all.

it seems to only be on ing or ang etc words

[Quizmonster]

In 'standard' English...ie the form of pronunciation as is indicated by The Oxford English Dictionary or Chambers...the middle 'g' is not pronounced, so it's ganger rather than gang-ger. Of course, dialects don't always stick to 'standard' English, so their versions of words are locally 'correct', though they might be looked at askance by speakers of the standard version.