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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar
It's a question about the spoken language, not the written language.
I have a poser that I’ve been thinking about a lot. It’s the spoken, not written, language.
I've observed a trend in recent years among many people, including people in broadcasting, to omit the diphthong.
I learned in grade school that when we speak the article “the” just before a word that begins with a noun, we pronounce “the” as “thee.”
All the time these days I hear people saying thuh ocean, thuh apple, thuh announcement, thuh ordinary, thuh eventual, etc.
Isn't this incorrect? What's happened? It almost seems like using "thuh" in such instances requires MORE effort than using "thee," because it requires a mini-glottal stop.
I've observed a trend in recent years among many people, including people in broadcasting, to omit the diphthong.
I learned in grade school that when we speak the article “the” just before a word that begins with a noun, we pronounce “the” as “thee.”
All the time these days I hear people saying thuh ocean, thuh apple, thuh announcement, thuh ordinary, thuh eventual, etc.
Isn't this incorrect? What's happened? It almost seems like using "thuh" in such instances requires MORE effort than using "thee," because it requires a mini-glottal stop.
Top answer
Anonymous before a word that begins with a noun to omit the dipthong I agree with you. As an aside, perhaps you mean "that begins with a vowel. " Also, I'm not sure "dipthong" is the best word to describe what you mean.
- Anonymous before a word that begins with a noun to omit the dipthong I agree with you.
- As an aside, perhaps you mean "that begins with a vowel.
- " Also, I'm not sure "dipthong" is the best word to describe what you mean.
- I think "di" means "two," and is used in English to describe two successive vowel sounds.
- When we pronounce the pronoun, "I," we actually produce two separate vowel sounds: ah + ee .
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Anonymous before a word that begins with a noun
to omit the dipthong I agree with you.
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