Rennet
Dear teacher,
I learnt to pronounce "rennet" as "renei", with a silent "t". I don't know how I came to learn it, however.
Almost all the dictionaries I have just consulted do not have my pronunciation at all. (How embarrassing!) Is my pronunciation of the word archaic or obsolete? (By the way, I do not pronounce the last "t" in the word "trait": is my pronunciation of "rennet" the same as this word, too?).
Thank you for answering my question.
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w=rennet&ls=a all give pronunciations, and several have audio clips that you can listen to. None mention any possibility of a silent "t". The final "t" in "trait" is definitely not silent, and the word is unlikely to be intelligible if pronounced "tray".
- w=rennet&ls=a all give pronunciations, and several have audio clips that you can listen to.
- None mention any possibility of a silent "t".
- The final "t" in "trait" is definitely not silent, and the word is unlikely to be intelligible if pronounced "tray".
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I don't know which dictionaries you are looking at, but the first half dozen at https://www.onelook.com/?w=rennet&ls=a all give pronunciations, and several have audio clips that you can listen to. None mention any possibility of a silent "t".
The final "t" in "trait" is definitely not silent, and the word
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