Re: Linguistic tic's and crutches
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Originally Posted by katex
Just a quick correction here, Garinda. In words that end in 'ing', the 'g' should never be pronounced; it is a nasal sound where you raise the back of your tongue (pronounced again without the 'g' and tun) to the palette. 
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Katex is right here but should have specified that it is so when the word ends in the suffix "-ing" (therefore words like King, Ming etc don't follow the rule) -it's called a velar nasal consonant and you don't actually pronounce the g fully and sort of hint at it in the way Katex describes. This is the pronunciation I prefer - the other more American pronunciation where there is no hint of the g is known as an alveolar nasal consonant, which makes it sound like the words end in "in".
(Interrogated friend Charlotte as she studied linguistics and is a mine of info!) By the way you do pronounce the g when you say Linguistics  
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