[STRIKE]Does[/STRIKE] Is "ing" [STRIKE]is[/STRIKE] always pronounced like "in"?
For example:
Swimming = swimmin
Playing = playin
Note my changes above. The "g" is omitted only by lazy speakers.
The "g" is omitted only by lazy speakers.
I can't say I've noticed. I'll give it a listen and report back (if I remember).I read a paper several years ago that said that in US English, this feature of speech is significantly more common to male speech than female. Does that sound right to you, GoesStation?
(I can't cite the source.)
Wow, my grandfather would be turning in his grave! As a child, if I didn't enunciate clearly the "-ing" at the end of those words, there was hell to pay! The same rule was applied by all my English teachers at school. I have genuinely never considered it anything to do with regional accents or dialects.
If I understand rightly, you're saying that this is a question of politics, not laziness, right? Did your grandfather think it made you sound 'common' or what?
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