To worry that I've been pronouncing this word wrong?

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Tongue? How do you pronounce it? I am sat watching the football with my in laws, DH and DDs. DD2 said something about sticking her tongue out (DCs pronounce it "tung" like me) MIL corrected her and said it's pronounced "tong". I knew that was how DH pronounces it but I thought it was a regional variation, but now I'm worried I'm just wrong! Can anyone help settle this? DH and in laws are from Nottinghamshire and I'm from North Yorkshire if that helps!

North West - tong
Buckinghamshire - tung

But fluorella do you say “ton” for tonne (“tun”)

tung (from Kent)
My Dad says tong, he's from Sussex, I don't think its regional.

You wouldn’t get the Queen saying tong.

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Tung

Tung

I've never heard anyone pronounce it "tong"

Tong!!!

No one says tung round here (Manchester). You’d get laughed at (or punched)

CurlyhairedAssassin Erm...

We’ve got a weird thing up in Liverpool where a very small group of people say “packet of crisp” not “crisps” plural.

Bloody weirdos.

Tung - I'm from the North East.

I suppose Hyacinth Bucket might just pronounce it "tong-ew", but I've never heard of normal people (ie not your MIL) say "tong"

As far as I am concerned a "tong" is the Chinese equivalent of a Mafia family.

Tung!

Tong .. eugh I hate it prounced Tung (NW)

I’m from Cambridgeshire. I say ‘tung’ but my dad, originally from Manchester, says ‘tong’, which I found hilarious as a child.

OED reckons it should be tung /tʌŋ/

That's that settled.

We are right. Your MIL is wrong.

Rub her nose in it!

Tung. Anything else is an affectation.

Tung. Liverpool ILs say tong.

Tung - Scotland

Tung (North Yorkshire)

How can you say none other than non?

Tung.

Tong is just fricking wrong. It even rhymes with wrong

Tong isn’t standard Liverpool. It’s definitely a class thing.

CurlyhairedAssassin which class is tong?

Native English speaker here but not from UK (obvs by user name): Please can I plead with you all to embrace the variations! Celebrate your regional differences in language rather than browbeat and score points off your in-laws. My multi-national DCs are intrigued by occasional pronunciation differences between me and DH (good public school, oxbridge, southern counties/Kent)

My informal experience suggests that native English has as wide a variation in pronunciation as the other top languages: I think there are outraged mums on Arabic, Mandarin and Spanish websites shouting about 'random relative pronounces X differently'. What if every Irish/Scottish/US/Canadian/Kiwi/Ozzie/South African speaker wrote in to highlight anomalies? Remember, when you are south of the Humber/north of the Thames/across the Narrow Sea, your fellow English speakers manage with your speech and you'd be outraged if they didn't. Pity the non-native speakers who cope with tourists of every nationality trying to buy tickets and order dinner in 'english'.

Any time you feel sad about 'the Empire', listen to the whole planet functioning in your language. That is your amazing legacy. Only Caesar really managed that. Even people who speak one of the top 3 languages (arabic, chinese, spanish in any order), learn English as their next language because it is the most useful and England gave them that.

At the risk of starting a class war, i’d Bet that anyone who holds their knife like a pen says tong.

Tung- suffolk

DH says tong - fromManchester.

I say tung - South west