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Anduy Posted 18 years ago
Speech & Pronunciation

first stand

0 I've been wondering whether a native English speaker would pronounce these words as /f05000st st05100nd/ or /f05200st05300nd/.02br
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02br 00It can only really be examined in context because stress will have a lot of effect on the result, but in most cases where the first of two words ends with the same sound as the beginning of the second, they are reduced to a single sound in the flow of conversational speech. 0-

— Mister Micawber

  • 02br 00It can only really be examined in context because stress will have a lot of effect on the result, but in most cases where the first of two words ends with the same sound as the beginning of the second, they are reduced to a single sound in the flow of conversational speech.
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0 I'd say FURS STAND, skipping a T. 0-
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