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Pronunciation!

Pronunciation!

Posted: 19 Jun 2002 11:08PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 19 Jun 2002 11:17PM GMT
Surnames: Ng
I am interested to know how other Ng's pronounce their surname. I live in Liverpool, England and have family in Hong Kong and Europe. Personally, I pronounce it as 'ing' but I have heard other variations such as 'ung', 'ang', 'nn', 'nigh'. How do you pronounce yours?

Re: Pronunciation!

Tim (View posts)
Posted: 30 Jun 2002 4:11PM GMT
Classification: Query
I Use the same pronunciation as you do "ing" and have heard people confuse it with vietnamese or filipino pronunciations as "nang," "ung," "nig," or just the ole confusion on their face and said as N, G. Gives me quite the laugh also when they look at it on paper and I know that it is my name they are stuck on so I just say "here."

Re: Pronunciation!

Posted: 7 May 2003 1:49PM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 8 Feb 2004 11:11PM GMT
Surnames: Ng
I married into the name a few years ago. My husband's of Chinese ancestry, and pronounces it like "Ung". We've heard others pronounce it, ING, NUG, ONG, ENG.

Re: Pronunciation!

Ona D. Akotan (View posts)
Posted: 20 Nov 2003 3:34PM GMT
Classification: Query
How many nationalities use the name Ng? I alwasy thought it was Vietnamese, but it seems some Chinese and Filipinos are Ngs too???

Re: Pronunciation!

Posted: 10 Apr 2008 2:49AM GMT
Classification: Query
well funny thing. My name is Peter Ng. And people always ask me how i pronounce my last name. Well my parents are also form hispanic descent so when people said our last name in spanish they just pronounced it n-g. Well from that day on my family pronounces our last name as N-G. Like two seperate letters. I don't know if any other families pronounce it this way, but I think its veyr unique (since a lot of families have the last name Ng)

Re: Pronunciation!

Posted: 12 Sep 2008 10:26PM GMT
Classification: Query
i would like you to e mail me. Do you have any relatives in Northampton uk? I have a secret!

Re: Pronunciation!

Posted: 30 Nov 2008 3:30AM GMT
Classification: Query
I live in the United States and my family always pronounces it exactly as it is spelled: n. g. There is no phonetic spelling even in Cantonese, when the British assigned the "ng" spelling in Pin-Yin to describe the sound when written it had no connection either. So why try and pronounce something that was intended to be a written place marker anyways? We have family in Sydney, Australia, they do the same, also our family in Spanish speaking countries in Venezuela, Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. Of course they say the letters in Spanish.

Re: Pronunciation!

Posted: 30 Nov 2008 3:32AM GMT
Classification: Query
We also pronounce it that way. Even those of us living in Spanish countries, just in Spanish though.

Re: Pronunciation!

Posted: 14 Aug 2010 4:18AM GMT
Classification: Query
Hi my name is Wilfredo Ng I am from Dominican Republic, I meet a chinesse girl in logan utah two months ago, and she told me that the ponunciation is ¨ung¨ like you said, i hope that this could be helpful

Pronunciation!

Posted: 21 Sep 2010 12:25PM GMT
Classification: Query
Hi Libby - I have always pronounced it "ing" but my mum says it is "ung". We live in Lancashire, UK, and have family worldwide.
Also, it makes me chuckle when folk ask "if there's a letter missing" very funny considering my name is Ms M Ng haha
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