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:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NrRXjxGFDM

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?

Last edited by chamcham (2012 August 29, 6:05 pm)