might interest you in one of my linguistics courses we studied the usage of the proper ing pronunciation on present participles ex running hopping etc versus the substandard in pronunciation runnin' hoppin' among various social classes in the us it was found that in working class families that the in was much more common even in formal interviews with it being less often used when reading a text or passage in middle class and even lower middle class families the ing was used much more frequently i guess the point is who's right you could argue the same with african american vernacular english is it wrong or a dialect anyway thought i'd share that tid bit with you peace tom udi