The sound /n/ remains unchanged at the word boundaries where it is followed by a wordbeginning with a vowel sound as in bring it (/brlglt/) and sing us a song (/sines a sto/).However, in the case of adjectives, the adding of the suffixes -eror -est to thecomparative and superlative degree of the words longer and longest has changed thepronunciation of /y/ inta /gsj ()