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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.

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