"verb+ing" wierd pronounciation
I've been watching a video tutorial, and whilst the instructor was talking, He mentioned two "verbs+ing" (Starting and ending) with a strange way.
He said (starteeeeen and endeeeeeen) not the usual pronunciation.
Also while watching the AGT Americans' Got Talent, a kid said "My favorite hobbies are fisheeeen and hunteeeeeen".
So, my question here: Is there a specific situation that perhaps it is more casual or nice to pronounce verbs like that?. Or it is just some English dialect?.
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It's a local US accent - it's really no more casual or nicer than common English pronunciation, but if you threw that into your regular pronunciation you might sound a little funny. Most English speakers don't extend the "ing" part, and instead make the last syllable a somewhat short neutral sound.
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The "ing" part is pronounced (eeng), so when you hear VERB+in, it will sound like "een", but the final "g" is there.
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It's a local accent. Sounds like somewhere in the US to me.
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@Aaron , @Holly .. Thanks a lot. You made it clear.
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A local accent. Very, very slight southern accent :) It sounds like Indiana to me.
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