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-ていく vs -てゆく - chamcham - 2012-08-29
Hi guys.
I know that 行く can be pronounced either "いく" or "ゆく”.
Something that I find interesting is that often when it's written in te-form as
"ーていく" people still pronounce it as ”ーてゆく”, even though 行く is written as いく。
So basically, people are pronouncing い as if it were ゆ。
This seems fairly consistent when I hear it in karaoke.
One example is 0:52 into this song:
No just this song, but many other songs that use ーていく.
So I don't think it's a slip of the tongue (no one seems to correct themselves and say "-te iku").
I just find it a bit strange because Japanese natives are changing the pronunciation of a hiragana character. Or are supposed to make an exception and treat い as a kanji character (with 2 pronunciations: "い" and "ゆ") in this instance?
-ていく vs -てゆく - kitakitsune - 2012-08-29
行く is written as 行く and pronounced as either いく or ゆく.
ゆく has a more poetic feel to it so you hear it often in songs. This is correct and in no way are people "mispronouncing" anything when they do it.
Edit: sorry I misread what you wrote. The ていく in karaoke script but with a singer singing ゆく is probably a typo.
-ていく vs -てゆく - Kyoshi88 - 2012-09-28
Note that ゆく is a much more older reading than いく. In classical Japanese, at least until the Heian period it's always ゆく.