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  • 'That you' becomes 'Thach you'
  • 'Did you' becomes 'Dij you' (or something near this) But body, responsibility doesn't. When that happens?
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    When? When speaking English. The process is called palatalization and it produces a /tʃ/ from a /t/ when preceding an /i/ or /y/ at normal speech rates. This applies to the sounds of English, not the spellings. Body is pronounced /'badi/, with a stressed vowel, not a /y/.
    – John Lawler
    Commented Sep 5, 2021 at 21:52
  • This is quite like what happens in most Brazilian Portuguese to the ends of words like frente and facilidade (but not in European Portuguese, Galician, Spanish, etc). It's also why C becomes S not K before E/I, and why words like action, rational, session,,vision, concious, conscience, measure, erasure, tonsure, discussion, fusion, tissue, species, sugar, sure and many thousands more all get palatalized. In all these cases you have to place the blame on the "yod" /j/ sound. See also Iberian words from Latin pl/cl- that all palatalized into ch/ll- there, unlike in French or Italian.
    – tchrist ♦
    Commented Sep 6, 2021 at 3:36

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