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Interesting exception
"anything" vs "something"
I just found an interesting exception in my dialect. While most two syllable words that end in -ing, I pronounce as [in], the word "anything" always has the -ing.
IPA XSAMPA
so: anything [ɛniθɪŋ] [EniTIN]
but: something [sʌin] [sVin] (rather than sump'n) (and in careful speech: [sʌmθin] [sVmTin])
or: thinking [θɪŋkin] [TINkin] (never *[θɪŋkɪŋ] *[TINkIN] or *[θɪŋkɪn] *[TINkIn])
can anyone explain why this might be?
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I never shorten anything to anythin' either, although it occasionally happens to other -ing words. No idea why.
What has always struck me as weird is the English tendency to say "ennathing" instead of "enneething". Explain that one to me!
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