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Victorycountry Posted 21 years ago
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what year are you in?

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00In "what year are you in", I am just wondering how to pronounce "what year". As far as I know, if "y" sound comes right after the "t" sound, it makes "chu" sound. But here, I am not sure whether I am making the sound correctly.02br
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0 A speech expert may be able to give you the cause of the 'chu' sound, but though I've heard it the way you are describing, it is not really effective English to pronounce it that way. ' There is no reason for the separate pronunciations of 'what' and 'year' to be slurred into each other, unless you want to imitate vernacular speech, like:. ') 0-

— Davkett

  • 0 A speech expert may be able to give you the cause of the 'chu' sound, but though I've heard it the way you are describing, it is not really effective English to pronounce it that way.
  • ' There is no reason for the separate pronunciations of 'what' and 'year' to be slurred into each other, unless you want to imitate vernacular speech, like:.
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0 A speech expert may be able to give you the cause of the 'chu' sound, but though I've heard it the way you are describing, it is not really effective English to pronounce it that way. You could be misunderstood as saying: 'What cheer...' or 'what chair...' There is no reason for the separate pronunciations of 'what' and 'year' to be slurred into each other, unless you want to imitate vernacu
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