is t pronounced in often?
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Often has a medial /t/ that, like similar words such has "hasten" and "soften," was once pronounced and is now typically silent. ... As you might guess, the \t\ was pronounced in the past, when the word began as a variant of oft (also spelled ofte in Middle English), which was the more common form until the 1500s.
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For a hardcore Jersey accent, drop the "h" that follows a "t" so "thrifty" becomes trifty. Pronounce double t's as double d's to have a Jersey accent, as in, "I'm waitin' for the mailman because I'm expectin' a ledder." Pronounce some o's like "aw," as in: "Put the chawk-lit awn the table so the dawg can't reach it."
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Today, the word “niche” is properly pronounced as either NITCH or NEESH. But this wasn't always so. For generations, the traditional English pronunciation was NITCH. A Gallic pronunciation, NEESH, has been gaining in popularity in recent decades, and now American dictionaries accept both versions.
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A listener named Matt wants to know why some speakers of American English pronounce the word “wash” as “warsh.” This pronunciation is sometimes called the “intrusive R,” and like our recent episode on the “pin”/“pen" merger and “cot”/“caught” merger, this question has to do with dialects of American English.
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in Catalán, when "x" stands alone, it is a "ch" but when preceded by an "i" it becomes "sh." So, Eixample is pronounced "eye-SHAM-ple". There are actually ome folks who pronounce it ""Gayxample".. when you go to Barcelona you'll see why.
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['per-ni-ci-ou-s.', 'per-ni-cious.', 'per-ni-cio-u-s.']
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The r-controlled /ar/ vowel sound as in care can be spelled in a few different ways. It can be spelled are as in care, air as in hair, ear as in bear, eir as in their, ere as in there, ey're as in they're, aire as in extraordinaire, and ayer as in prayer. It can be a difficult sound for children to recognize.
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['IPA: /ʒɑːk/ Rhymes: -ɑːk.', 'IPA: /d͡ʒæk/ Rhymes: -æk.']
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The result is a vowel-like consonant. Linguistically, the "sometimes" part of the grade-school lesson doesn't make sense, since the letter y is more commonly pronounced as a vowel. But its consonant sound is unique, and that seems to be why y is more often considered to be a consonant and only "sometimes" a vowel.
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['in-con-gr-u-ou-s.', 'in-con-gru-ou-s.', 'in-con-gru-ous.']
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Q: Why do Americans use “tidbit” for a word that we in the UK properly spell “titbit”? A: Americans may spell it “tidbit” because that's how the term was pronounced when it first appeared in English in the 17th century as “tyd bit.”
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AH (a), BAY (b), SAY [THAY, in Spain] (c), DAY (d), EY (e), EH-fay (f), HAY (g), AH-chay (h), EE (i), HOH-tah (j), KAH (k), EH-lay (l), EH-may (m), EH-nay (n), EH-nyay (ñ), OH (o), PAY (p), COO (q), EH-rray (r), EH-say (s), TAY (t), OOH (u), OOH-bay (v), DOH-blay OOH-bay (w), EH-kees (x), YAY (y), SAY-tah [THAY-tah, in ...
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If you don't believe me, try saying “robot rabbit.” If the “t” were completely silent, it should sound like “robarabbit” but instead it sounds like “roba'rabbit.” That apostrophe is the glottal stop which is the allophone of “t” in this word. What word has a silent letter 'T'?
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['"igh" /aɪ/ as in high or sight.', '"-ng" /ɪŋ/, /æŋ/, /ʌŋ/ as in sing, song, sung.', '"ost" /oʊ/ as in most (but not "lost" or "cost")', '"ow" /oʊ/, /aʊ/ has two different sounds as in low, and cow.', '"ed" /ət/, /d/, /t/ has three different sounds as in lifted, played, and walked.']
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It's amazing how many people pronounce pho wrong, despite its popularity. While most people would say poe or foe, it's actually pronounced more like fuh.
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e is the most common letter in the English language, th is the most common bigram, and the is the most common trigram. This strongly suggests that X ~ t , L ~ h and I ~ e .
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When c is in front of an i, y, or e, it is soft and says /s/. For example: city, cycle, and race. When c is in front of any other letter, it is hard and says /k/. For example: camera, car, and cone.