Editing General American English (section)

=== {{Sc2|KIT}} variation in final unstressed /ɪŋ/ ===
General American speakers typically realize final unstressed {{IPA|/ɪŋ/}}, like at the end of ''singing'', as {{IPA|[ɪŋ]}} or, in a particularly casual [[style (sociolinguistics)|style]], {{IPA|[ɪn]}}. However, many speakers from [[California English|California]], other [[Western American English|Western states]] including those in the [[Pacific Northwest English|Pacific Northwest]], and the [[North-Central American English|Upper Midwest]] realize final unstressed {{IPA|/ɪŋ/}} as {{IPA|[in]}} when {{IPA|/ɪ/}} ("short ''i''") is raised to become {{IPAblink|i}} ("long ''ee''") before the underlying {{IPA|/ŋ/}} is converted to {{IPA|[n]}}, so that ''coding'', for example, is pronounced {{IPA|[ˈkoʊdin]}}, homophonous with ''codeine''.<ref>{{cite book|last=Metcalf|first=Allan|title=How We Talk: American Regional English Today |date=2000|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt|chapter=The Far West and beyond|isbn=0618043624|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SsMUCl5j8X4C&pg=PA143|page=143|quote=Another pronunciation even more widely heard among older teens and adults in California and throughout the West is 'een' for -''ing'', as in 'I'm think-een of go-een camp-een.'}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Hunter |first1=Marsha |last2=Johnson |first2=Brian K. |title=The Articulate Advocate: New Techniques of Persuasion for Trial Attorneys |date=2009 |publisher=Crown King Books |chapter=Articulators and Articulation |isbn=9780979689505 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-OQDBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA92|page=92|quote=Regional Accents ... A distinguishing characteristic of the Upper Midwestern accent is the tendency to turn the 'ing' sound into 'een,' with a cheerful 'Good morneen!'}}</ref>