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Why is /ɪŋk/ used with "ink" words when the actual pronunciation is /ijŋk/?
It would be more internally consistent for IPA to represent English “ing” as /iŋ/.
I have yet to find a word containing “ing” that the vowel sounds more like the /ɪ/ of ship instead of the /i/ of ...
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