pronouncing the g in "ing"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

You know....there is a difference between a "hick" and someone who simply has a southern accent. I would rather listen to the soft sound of a southern accent all day long then have to listen to five minutes of that horrid Yankee accent.

So very, very true.

There are two types of Southern accents. The first is genteel and Faulkneresque. The second is horrid and sounds hateful... shades of the KKK.

I'd still rather listen to a "Yankee" accent any day. Southerners take about twice as long to say the same words as everyone else. "Thank youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu." Okay, I got you two minutes ago. Shut up please.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What? You're not supposed to say the g at the end of ing?

OP is wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

The first is genteel and Faulkneresque. The second is horrid and sounds hateful... shades of the KKK.

Blaming working class whites for the KKK is mistaken. It's just an excuse; if the "genteel" people who ran the town hadn't wanted the KKK around, they had the power to stop it.

There are a number of Southern accents, as there are a number of Northern accents. It's a big country.

[Anonymous]

Are you kidding me?

Informal dropping of "g" in "ing" is OK but as an everyday, all-the-time thing IMO it marks you as a rube, a slovenly user of the English language, one who doesn't care if they sound like they know what they're talking (or talkin') about...

I particularly hate the phony folksiness of people I have worked with in senior managment positions who will put on the informal leveler of dropping "g"s... I mean droppin'
"g"s when they're talkin' to folks, etc., etc.

You're either a troll, a non-native English speaker, or a linguistic slob, lol.

[Anonymous]

^^^
pp ... I exempt from that conclusion people who have truly genuine Southern accents in which that may be part of the dialect, but in general it's part of appropriate/proper pronunciation IMO/IME.

You won't go far in many professions, including mine, if you're droppin' yer g's and you don't have an authentic regional accent that accounts for it, and even then some will wonder.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In the UK, we pronounce the "g" at the end of words, as well as the "t" in twenty, etc.

Dropping the "g" entirely definitely comes off as uneducated. Having a softer or harder "g" sound is perfectly fine.

Indeed....

I hate that dropping the "t" in twenty, too. It's like saying "fiddy" for "50".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

You know....there is a difference between a "hick" and someone who simply has a southern accent. I would rather listen to the soft sound of a southern accent all day long then have to listen to five minutes of that horrid Yankee accent.

So very, very true.

There are two types of Southern accents. The first is genteel and Faulkneresque. The second is horrid and sounds hateful... shades of the KKK.

I'd still rather listen to a "Yankee" accent any day. Southerners take about twice as long to say the same words as everyone else. "Thank youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu." Okay, I got you two minutes ago. Shut up please.

What state gets to claim you and your genteel manners?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op here:

This person is from the USA and grew up in a place without a particular accent. ...and has no accent. parents are both professional. went to a selective college so not stupid...

drives me crazy. I was hoping someone would say they can't help it...like they are color blind for the fact that almost nobody else says the g in ing...

It's a peculiar brand of arrogance to think that you (or someone else) have no accent. He or she certainly has an American accent of one kind or another.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

You know....there is a difference between a "hick" and someone who simply has a southern accent. I would rather listen to the soft sound of a southern accent all day long then have to listen to five minutes of that horrid Yankee accent.

So very, very true.

There are two types of Southern accents. The first is genteel and Faulkneresque. The second is horrid and sounds hateful... shades of the KKK.

I'd still rather listen to a "Yankee" accent any day. Southerners take about twice as long to say the same words as everyone else. "Thank youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu." Okay, I got you two minutes ago. Shut up please.

What state gets to claim you and your genteel manners?

I'm an Army brat... lived all over this country and two foreign countries. So I know of what I speak. But I'm originally from New York State (upstate). That's a terrible accent too. "I'll have a chaclate melk. He'll have a diet Popsi. After we drink these, we'll do some warsh and then going swimming off the dack." Yuck.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In the UK, we pronounce the "g" at the end of words, as well as the "t" in twenty, etc.

Dropping the "g" entirely definitely comes off as uneducated. Having a softer or harder "g" sound is perfectly fine.

I'm from the UK (not sure if you are the person pretending to be a Scot or just misunderstood the thread). We do not ever pronounce the G (as a hard G). But we also do not typically drop the G either, which is considered very American. I've never heard the G sounded out at the end of ing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

You won't go far in many professions, including mine, if you're droppin' yer g's and you don't have an authentic regional accent that accounts for it, and even then some will wonder.

Only people who are not well-traveled and are naive about linguistics will worry about it. Unless, of course, they're pretending to be something they aren't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you kidding me?

Informal dropping of "g" in "ing" is OK but as an everyday, all-the-time thing IMO it marks you as a rube, a slovenly user of the English language, one who doesn't care if they sound like they know what they're talking (or talkin') about...

I particularly hate the phony folksiness of people I have worked with in senior managment positions who will put on the informal leveler of dropping "g"s... I mean droppin'
"g"s when they're talkin' to folks, etc., etc.

You're either a troll, a non-native English speaker, or a linguistic slob, lol.

I don't think that's what the OP was talking about (two years ago, mind you). S/he was talking about adding a hard "guh" sound at the end of words ending in -ing. So, runninguh as opposed to runnin' like you're talking about. I used to hear people say runeen. Now that was a weird pronunciation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is it like the way Forrest Gump pronounces 'running'?

Ha! I was thinking the same thing.

[Anonymous]

Exactly. Many posters have missed OPs point. Sounding the G at the end of a word sounds bad. But I would tread lightly as anyone who does this may have a mental slowness. Seriously.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fascinating. Two years ago we paid $1,000+ out of pocket to a speech pathologist who worked with DS on articulation deficiencies.

Guess what one of the sound combos was? Uh huh, the ending /g/ in /-ing/ words. Because that's proper standard English.

For the person talkinG about hicks .... it's actually 'hick' to drop the /g/ in /-ing/ .... I'm a fixin' to git goin' in the mornin' . See?

This. It really should be pronounced. Unless you're a hick.