Pronunciation

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It is a three syllable word, and there is a vowel cluster. Therefore, the middle syllable get unstressed. The vowel cluster -eu- is not an english one; anglicizing it leads to /u/, cf. deuce, Neuce, etc

'b?t ?l ?d?us, /t/ is a tapped t

What's your point?

Regards

Dokterjokkebrok

dokterjokkebrokWhat's your point?

I made an implicit point: it is not cognitively productive to remember pronounciation for every word. What learners should be taught: a set of heuristics to find possible pronunciations for a word. Mastery of phonetics (or how to produce bilabial fricative, etc) does not help much. English phonology helps.

Since it i

Okay, point taken. Clearly you're very knowlegdeable on this particular subject, and I couldn't agree more with you. However, I didn't understand right away how some aspects added to the explanation, because I seriously doubt if the person who asked the question understands terms like 'tapped t' or 'vowel cluster'. Absolutely no offence, but I just think its very likely that your explanation – th

dokterjokkebrokI just think its very likely that your explanation – though a very extensive and elaborate one – is still quite a few steps beyond them.

You're probably right, but maybe others will benefit from that explanation. Students often browse through the posts, and someone might learn something, even if the response was too advanced for the original p

Very well analyzed.
In the end, I don't believe there is one correct pronunciation of Betelgeuse.

'The' correct pronunication (if there ever was one) is long lost in the history of mistranslations, leaving a plethora of plausible pronunciations, of which yours is as good as they get. The ultimate 'correct' pronunciation will be the one spoken most frequently. The majority of di