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Ying Yang is a very thoughtless Americanization of Yin Yang. But I am sure the unwary soul who uses this pronunciation has not studied the Lao Tze or Chuang Tze or the I Ching or other such Taoist works which discuss this concept, or else they would have repeatedly bumped into the lack of the non-existent 'g'.

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