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Ruslan L. Posted 13 years ago
Speech & Pronunciation
A.E. pronunciation
In this video,
the teacher says that in the end of the word or the syllable the "t" is dropped - cut, internet...
Whereas the NTC's Beginner's Dictionary of American English usage says that "t" is not dropped.
Comment please, - to drop or not to drop "t".
the teacher says that in the end of the word or the syllable the "t" is dropped - cut, internet...
Whereas the NTC's Beginner's Dictionary of American English usage says that "t" is not dropped.
Comment please, - to drop or not to drop "t".
Top answer
Well, the whole thing is rather counterproductive—a lot of time wasted on matters of very little importance. However, I'd say that the AmE speaker is not dropping her 't's in that segment of the video; she is merely stopping them. If we had a chance to listen to those two speakers in natural conversation instead of self-consciously pronouncing isolated words and phrases, we would find more similarities than differences, I suspect.
- Well, the whole thing is rather counterproductive—a lot of time wasted on matters of very little importance.
- However, I'd say that the AmE speaker is not dropping her 't's in that segment of the video; she is merely stopping them.
- If we had a chance to listen to those two speakers in natural conversation instead of self-consciously pronouncing isolated words and phrases, we would find more similarities than differences, I suspect.
- And trying to make an exhibition of such differences inevitably exaggerates them.
- The only time the word 'cut', for example, is uttered alone, it is shouted by a film director with a very explosive aspirated 't' in any dialect.
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Well, the whole thing is rather counterproductive—a lot of time wasted on matters of very little importance.
However, I'd say that the AmE speaker is not dropping her 't's in that segment of the video; she is merely stopping them. If we had a chance to listen to those two speakers in natural conversation instead of self-consciously pronouncing isolated words and phrases, we would find mo
However, I'd say that the AmE speaker is not dropping her 't's in that segment of the video; she is merely stopping them. If we had a chance to listen to those two speakers in natural conversation instead of self-consciously pronouncing isolated words and phrases, we would find mo
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Ruslan L.... at the end of the word or the syllable the "t" is dropped - cut ...In American English some Ts are unreleased, not dropped.
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