> UK: "Reading-g." (Really. Every BBC presenter does the double-G ing on everything-g.) I've listened for this, and can't hear it. Are you saying that after

> UK: "Reading-g." (Really. Every BBC presenter does the double-G ing on everything-g.) I've listened for this, and can't hear it. Are you saying that after the final ŋ, you hear a g sound? Or that you think the ŋ sound is lengthened? Every text on English phonetics gives ri:dɪŋ as the RP pronunciation. Here's a transcript containing words ending in "ing": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Received_Pronunciation#Spoken_specimen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Received_Pronunciation#Spoken_...