I know plenty of hicks and none of them pronounce the "g".

Is it like the way Forrest Gump pronounces 'running'?

Wow just wow. People in the UK, Canada, and other Englisg speaking countries pronounce the g... Get out much, op? The also pronounce their t's... Americans like to say budder and wader, but to the rest of the world it's water and butter.

What an ignorant post!!!!

Anonymous wrote:11:46. but the ing sound is the g like in go. that's what we are talking about.

goin' is GoN
going is go-een
goinG (with the hard G) is like...goeenG.
This is a hard conversation to have online.

You mean like going-guh? Hitting the g sound separately, rather than melding it in with in?

Anonymous wrote:11:46. but the ing sound is the g like in go. that's what we are talking about.

goin' is GoN
going is go-een
goinG (with the hard G) is like...goeenG.
This is a hard conversation to have online.

Lol.

I agree. I don't say I am goin' somewhere but nor would anyone focus on the way I say "ing".

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

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.

11:46. but the ing sound is the g like in go. that's what we are talking about.

goin' is GoN
going is go-een
goinG (with the hard G) is like...goeenG.
This is a hard conversation to have online.

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?

I just consider it conversational english versus formal english. As long as it is used in the right setting, it doesn't both me.

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...

This person probably has a hick background. I know, I know. Mean. But probably true.

Yes! My DH from Georgia does this, and doesn't believe me when I tell him it's normal to NOT pronounce the hard 'g'. If someone could find a link for me showing that it's wrong, I'd love it.

Having said that though, I love hearing him say the hard g. It's just how he speaks, and he has great grammar.

I believe that's from having an accent.

Really not a big deal. Relax. There are more important things to worry about.

THis drives me crazy. There is someone in my workplace who does this. Why? is it a speech impediment or just bad pronounciation? HIs speech and grammar are otherwise fine.