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Anonymous Posted 20 years ago
Speech & Pronunciation

Pronunciation of 'months'

I've read that 'months' is not pronounced /m?n?s/. Rather, according to one textbook, it is pronounced /m?ns/. However, the other book says it is pronounced /m?nts/ (/ts/ as in /ts/ of 'students'). So I was wondering which of them is right.

Thank you in advance.
  

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Hi, It's a word for which the pronunciation varies, depending on how carefully we are speaking. ns/ is common in my experience. Best wishes, Clive

— Clive

  • Hi, It's a word for which the pronunciation varies, depending on how carefully we are speaking.
  • ns/ is common in my experience.
  • Best wishes, Clive
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Hi,

It's a word for which the pronunciation varies, depending on how carefully we are speaking. In everyday, informal, quick speech, /m?ns/ is common in my experience.

Best wishes, Clive
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/m?ns/ for all practical purposes is the same as /m?nts/ because we put in a "sycophantic T" between /n/ and /s/.

Thus prince = prints.

I say /m?n?s/, or, if you want to transcribe that sycophantic T again, /m?nt?s/. It's a "dental T" here, however, and barely audible.

CJ
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sycophantic? Surely you mean epenthetic. Emotion: smile
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No. Surely I mean sycophantic! It's the word I've seen used several times to refer to this (epenthetic) phenomenon!

I say poTAYto, you say poTAHto.
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CalifJim/m?ns/ for all practical purposes is the same as /m?nts/ because we put in a "sycophantic T" between /n/ and /s/.

Thus prince = prints.

I say /m?n?s/, or, if you want to transcribe that sycophantic T again, /m?nt?s/. It's a "dental T" here, however, and barely audible.

CJ

Very interesting. It never occurred
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Good question. Thank you all for replying. I got it
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This article I came across says 'fifths' and 'fists' sound almost identical, the only two differences being that i) for the former, the sound of 's' is made by the tip of the tongue touching the edges of the upper teeth instead of the alveolar ridge; ii) the sound is longer for the former. About the 's' sound in 'fifths', is this a compromise between '?' (the tip of the tongue between the upper a
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