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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
Speech & Pronunciation

Is it pronunced kwest??n or kwesch?n please?
  

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I presume you are asking how 'question' is pronounced. t? is the IPA symbol for the 'ch' sound in English.

  • I presume you are asking how 'question' is pronounced.
  • t?
  • is the IPA symbol for the 'ch' sound in English.
  • n/.
  • t/.
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I presume you are asking how 'question' is pronounced. t? is the IPA symbol for the 'ch' sound in English. The IPA symbol 'c' doesn't represent a sound used in the English language, so the answer to your question is /kwest??n/.

If you are asking how 'it' is pronounced, it's /?t/.
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It seems to me that your renditions are the same, just using differing symbols. [ Using IPA, the English pronunciation of 'ch' is /t?/. ]
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Sorry, i meant to say is it pronunced with / t? / or / ? /.
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It is pronounced with a / t? / . Within connected speech the /s/ is often assimilated to post-alveolar / ? / in the face of post-alveolar / t? / and would thus be transcribed /'kwe?t??n/
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pronunciationkaren'kwe?t??n/
Do you think, Karen, that this is really very common? I find it quite difficult to say /?t?/ in fairly rapid speech. However, I know a very articulate, highly-educated woman who simply cannot say /str/, in any position. She always says /?tr/. I have always taken this as an affectation (partly because I'm not very fond of the ga
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That's an interesting one. It's the way I pronounce it along with most of the people I know, but it may be more of a BrE or regional variant. I would be interested to hear what pronunciation of 'question' other posters use.

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