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!

Tong from people from the north-west.

And the 'g' is long... tong-e

Tong - Manc

tong, haitch, scown, nugget, lickorish

it's a bit like almond - I say ah-mond (arlmond if I'making an effort to be proper) and I want to shoot people who say al-mond...)

Tong, from North Yorkshire too, but always said it wherever i have lived
From W Yorkshire originally, tong there too

armond

Tong here...

Here’s another one.. how do you say beige as in the colour.
My grandma swears it’s bee-ge where everyone else I know says b-age

Tong! ( Norfolk here, originally from Gt Manchester) never heard tung before

I was told at school that “tung” is in a human mouth and “tong” is the meat in a butchers

Why would "tung" make anyone cringe?

Tong here too - another Manc although I now live down south. I hadn't really noticed that apparently everyone around me would pronounce it differently, I'm going to have to try and get 'tongue' into as many conversations as I can this week just to check.

I say "tung". I'm Home Counties and apparently my "accent" is (according to others) "most definitely RP". I don't think I have an accent particularly.

I say 'tung' and im from London, I've never heard anyone pronounce it like 'tong'!

The word tongue is a bit yucky. It does make me cringe. In the same way that gusset does but not as much as moist

I reveal my Leicestershire origins when I say "tong" - my husband thought it was hilarious when we first met. "Bald" and "bold" are also homonyms for me (both rhyme with "told") - again Leicestershire. Accents are wonderful and fascinating. I'm glad there is so much variety.

Tung in South Yorkshire. Now excuse me I'm going to go and feel sad about the empire. 🤨

I made that ridiculous remark about "o"s not sounding like "u"s. They quite often sound like "u"s when I talk, just not when I'm talking about tongues!

What is the alternative way of pronouncing "lickorish"?

TONG!! I’m from Nottingham.

Tung is just weird.

Tung makes me cringe. It just sounds icky.

What is the alternative way of pronouncing "lickorish"?

lickoriss

Tong is the typical pronunciation in West Staffs and Cheshire, I worked on a cooked meats counter in Cheshire as a teenager in the 70s.

My family (Irish and Southern England) said tung but my customers almost all said Tong. I hated either because the idea of eating tongue of an animal (along with brawn) made me feel queasy. Actually I can hardly find a way to spell how my dad (Irish) pronounced it. Throat was pronounced "troth".

Tong.

Tung

Tung!

I have never heard anyone say tong. So odd!

Tung, I am from NE and dh, from Bradford also says tung.