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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
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how do you pronounce idiot, is it ?di?t or ?dij?t?
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t . Isn't this how you hear it pronounced in everyday speech?
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- Isn't this how you hear it pronounced in everyday speech?
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Anonymousis it ?di?t or ?dij?t?I use the first. Note, however, that there is always a slight off-glide in the transition between vowels, so a little sycophant /j/ always gets in there in this case. (The sycophant off-glide would be /w/ after a back vowel, e.g., in 'cruet'.)
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