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I pronounce "Halloween" like in "hallow". The other pronunciation may have originated by analogy with "hollow", although the word "Halloween" has no etymological relation to "hollow". In cot-caught merged varieties, it may also result from spelling ...

I pronounce "Halloween" like in "hallow". The other pronunciation may have originated by analogy with "hollow", although the word "Halloween" has no etymological relation to "hollow".

How do you pronounce?

"maintenance"
"broccoli"
"grocery"
"camera"

I have medial schwa elision in all of those.

How do you pronounce "cabinet"? I pronounce it with two syllables "cab net". Interesting. I could vision such an extreme reduction of unstressed vowels, but I wouldn't expect it in "cabinet". If I were to reduce the second vowel that much, I think it would still be thr...

How do you pronounce "cabinet"? I pronounce it with two syllables "cab net".

The words "tomorrow", "borrow", and "sorrow" likely resisted the shift from the LOT vowel to the NORTH vowel for most Americans that occurred in words like "forest" and "horrible" because the resulting vowel would be really close to the last vowel in...

I pronounce "sorry" like "sari".

What about:

"sorrow"
"tomorrow"
"borrow"

Glass Half Baked wrote: ↑Sun Oct 06, 2024 8:35 pm Are "yeah" and "nah" the only examples of the TRAP vowel in absolute-final position?

There is "baa" which can be said with the TRAP vowel as well as with the PALM vowel.

I have DRESS in "yeah" and can have either PALM or TRAP in "nah". Since I have the cot-caught merger, I can also write the pronunciation with the PALM vowel as "naw".

My favorite affirmative is [ja(ː)] which I write as yah or ja depending on what mood I'm in and how certain I am that the reader won't read the ⟨j⟩ as /dʒ/. I don't write it as ya though, even though some people do, as ya to me signifies [jə(ː)], which of course is a reduced version of you . I don'...

Yeh.

Does anyone not like it when people write "yeah" as "yea"? I'll see people write "yea" when they mean "yeah". "Yea" is a different word with the same meaning as "yeah", but a different pronunciation. "Yea" is pronounced like "...

How do you pronounce?

"length"
"strength"
"penguin"
"Jenkins"
"ginseng"

Does anyone ever pronounce "ewe" as "yo"? Dictionary.com lists this as a possible pronunciation of "ewe", but I have never heard it. Not that I hear the word "ewe" much to start with.

As for clothes , for me this has [s], underlying /z/ (preceding long vowel, voices before another vowel), and pronouncing it with [θs], underlying /ðz/, is a clear spelling pronunciation to me. I pronounce "clothes" like the verb "close" unless it is a verb as in "it clothe...

I personally can't remember ever hearing "whooping cough" said out loud. I rarely even see it written.

Meeriam-Webster online and dictionary.com only list [hu:pIN] cough for "whooping cough", but if I were to say it out loud (which I never do) I would say [wUpIN] cough. "Whooping cough" is rarely said out loud these days which is likely why it is prone to spelling pronunciation an...

If I found a cube with dots on it somewhere, I would naturally refer to it as a dice, not a die.

I remember one time in middle school when I heard the cube referred to as a die and it sounded strange to me.

I have occasionally heard people refer to multiple dice as "dices".

When you say "roll the dice" are you ever referring to a single cube? I use "dice" in the singular, never "die". Just like lice , as it was mentioned in another thread, dice practically functions as a plurale tantum . Well, yes. Dice commonly come in pairs. So they are...

When you say "roll the dice" are you ever referring to a single cube? I use "dice" in the singular, never "die".