Timeline for Pronunciation Rule for "nt" in the Middle of Words
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| Oct 14, 2019 at 14:05 | comment | added | Mitch | @PeterShor There's the separate phenomenon of intervocalic t-lenition in AmE - 'button': /ˈbʌtən/ -> /ˈbʌɾən/ ->/ˈbʌʔən/ . (where /ɾ/ is a tap) 'Clinton' for me is /klinɾən/ (/ən/ is really a syllabic /n/). | |
| Oct 14, 2019 at 13:59 | comment | added | Mitch | Any comments on BrE? (I realize the OP is about AmE) | |
| Oct 14, 2019 at 13:06 | comment | added | Peter Shor | @petitrien: It's possible /ˈklɪnən/ may be too informal for newscasters to use much. | |
| Oct 14, 2019 at 13:04 | comment | added | grandtout | @PeterShor Thanks for the link! A quick survey on youtube, made possible by how often the name is pronounced in the news, seems to give /ˈklɪ̃nʔn̩/ as the more usual pronunciation over /ˈklɪntən/. I couldn't find any instance of /ˈklɪnən/, though, apart for one of the Forvo realizations of the name. | |
| Oct 14, 2019 at 12:59 | history | edited | grandtout | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 14, 2019 at 12:20 | comment | added | Peter Shor | I'm American, and I think /ˈklɪntən/ sounds perfectly normal (as do /ˈklɪ̃nʔn̩/ and /ˈklɪnən/). You can hear all these pronunciations on forvo.com. | |
| Oct 14, 2019 at 9:03 | comment | added | Araucaria - Him | Not for speakers like me who have two KIT vowels in linen, but yes. | |
| Oct 14, 2019 at 8:47 | comment | added | grandtout | @Araucaria So "Clinton" rhyming with "linen"? | |
| Oct 14, 2019 at 7:01 | history | answered | grandtout | CC BY-SA 4.0 |