The phonemic status of the velar nasal consonant is disputed; one analysis claims that the only nasal phonemes in English are and , while is an allophone of found before velar consonants. Evidence in support of this analysis is found in accents of the north-west Midlands of England where is only found before or , with "sung" being pronounced as . However, in most other accents of English "sung" is pronounced , producing a three-way phonemic contrast "sum" – "sun" – "sung" and supporting the analysis of the phonemic status of . In support of treating the velar nasal as an allophone of , claims on psychological grounds that did not form part of a series of three nasal consonants: "no naive speaker of English can be made to feel in his bones that it belongs to a single series with and ... it still "feels" like ." More recent writers have indicated that analyses of as an allophone of may still have merit, even though may appear both with and without a following velar consonant; in such analyses, an underlying that is deleted by a phonological rule would account for occurrences of not followed by a velar consonant. Thus the phonemic representation of "sing" would be and that of "singer" is ; in order to reach the phonetic form and , it is necessary to apply a rule that changes to before or , then a second rule that deletes when it follows .