Timeline for Is the first syllable of "acknowledge" pronounced with /g/ by any notable amount of speakers?
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| Oct 27, 2018 at 4:01 | answer | added | herisson | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 25, 2018 at 21:47 | comment | added | herisson | @PeterShor: I pronounce it with /tɛk/. It may be relevant that the vowel is unreduced, while I usually pronounce acknowledge with a reduced vowel | |
| Oct 25, 2018 at 15:01 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/1055474356741160962 | ||
| Oct 25, 2018 at 14:12 | comment | added | Peter Shor | How do you pronounce technology? | |
| Oct 25, 2018 at 6:52 | comment | added | Nardog | I concur with your assessment. My impression is that acknowledge is commonly—if not more often than not—realized with [ɡ] in running speech of American English. On Youglish, I hear [ɡ] in most cases. It is curious no major dictionary seems to have taken note of this pronunciation; I assume it's either because the pronunciation is such a recent phenomenon they have not caught up with it or because the lexicographers regard the [ɡ] as an assimilatory allophone of /k/ rather than as a complete sound change. | |
| Oct 24, 2018 at 8:20 | comment | added | user 66974 | @sumelic - Yes, I guessed there might something interesting in there, but I am sure you can make a better job , better than I could, in making an organized answer out of that. Thanks. | |
| Oct 24, 2018 at 8:00 | comment | added | user 66974 | There is something here groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.usage.english/… | |
| Oct 24, 2018 at 7:19 | answer | added | Kris | timeline score: -1 | |
| Oct 24, 2018 at 7:11 | history | edited | herisson | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 24, 2018 at 7:10 | comment | added | Kris | Out of sheer egg knowledge. | |
| Oct 24, 2018 at 7:07 | history | asked | herisson | CC BY-SA 4.0 |