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een versus ing
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2016/10/19 - 11:34am

 Has anyone been hearing more and more (even from broadcasters) the pronunciation of ing as een, such as walkeen and talking instead of walking and talking.  When did this start?  Do they think it's cute or is it a fad of some sort?

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2016/10/20 - 12:54am

Whenever Bob Dylan drops the 'g'  he's liable to end up with 'een'  a lot more times than 'in.'  (That might've figured some into the Nobel commitee's   "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition").   But who else do you hear doing that?  (The 'in' for 'ing' is probably not what you're talking about, because people have always been doing that.)

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2016/10/20 - 6:55am

Okay, here you have Katie Couric (boxeen and anything with an ing), Suze Orman (are you kiddeen me and anything with an ing), and Miguel Almaguer (nothing has an ing sound; it's all rockeen and rolleen).  I don't remember this phenomenon happening until lately.  I thought it might be an overcorrection for people told not to say hollerin for hollering, etc., but it seems way too prevalent now.  

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