Anonymous
Post 03/08/2017 17:38     Subject: pronouncing the g in "ing"
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...


That was me. A professional from Cleveland. I had no idea that I dropped my g's until I moved here. I no longer do that.
Anonymous
Post 03/08/2017 17:15     Subject: Re:pronouncing the g in "ing"
I had to say a few words out loud to hear my pronunciation. I do not say the "ing". Example, runnin', playin', lookin'. I am from the Deep South. I have a soft southern accent. Not really hick. Just southern.
Anonymous
Post 03/08/2017 16:47     Subject: Re:pronouncing the g in "ing"
Move to the Upper Midwest, we drop the g. Get go-een!
Anonymous
Post 03/08/2017 15:20     Subject: Re:pronouncing the g in "ing"
Anonymous wrote:Is it like the way Forrest Gump pronounces 'running'?


My first thought, exactly!!
Anonymous
Post 03/08/2017 13:21     Subject: pronouncing the g in "ing"
Anonymous wrote:My friedd say thin instead of thing


This effing post is from 2011.



TWO THOUSAND ELEVEN.

Anonymous
Post 03/08/2017 12:37     Subject: pronouncing the g in "ing"
My friedd say thin instead of thing
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2014 12:03     Subject: Re:pronouncing the g in "ing"
What an odd post.
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2014 11:47     Subject: Re:pronouncing the g in "ing"
Anonymous wrote:there's some trailer trash on here that ends all her useless posts with "just sayin" eww don't


This is how half of America talks and they all sound like hicks. Where are you goin? What are you doin? I am swimmin. I am drivin my car. I am shoppin. Please bring back the -ing like in ring!
Anonymous
Post 08/19/2014 11:00     Subject: pronouncing the g in "ing"
in the TV show The Hills, the girls use hard G. sometimes almost a K. Talk-ink, go-ink
Anonymous
Post 07/02/2013 09:33     Subject: pronouncing the g in "ing"
Anonymous wrote:
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.


You're missing the point of this post. OP wasn't saying that it should be dropped completely like "fixin" but that it shouldn't be pronounced e.g. fixing-guh