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Pronunciation of "there, their and they're"
I know that the words there, their, and they're are homophones
Yes.
but I can't help but think that their has a slight /j/ between /e/
and /r/ (/ðer/).
It’s possible, but no more so than for there ...
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Pronunciation of "there, their and they're"
Yes, this is basically true for some speakers.
This has to do with the Mary-marry-merry mergers, which cause a great deal of variation in the pronunciation of such vowel sounds before /r/. This varies ...
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Vowel in "-ang" and "-ank" Words: Pronunciation and Dictionary Transcription
Thank uses a long a sound /ei/ with regard to most American accents. Dictionary uses the wide short a but truly, if you listen closely, it is the long a /ei/ for words like thank and ankle. the nk ...
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Is Missouri called /mi.'zuɹ.ə/ outside of Missouri?
The people who say Missoura used to be the ones that also said Miama, Cincinnata, and Hawaya. I've googled this, and there seem to be people who use this pronunciation scattered all over the Midwest—...
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Is Missouri called /mi.'zuɹ.ə/ outside of Missouri?
My grandfather grew up in far western Kentucky, southwest of Paducah, just across the Mississippi River from the southeastern corner of Missouri. He always used the schwa ending when he said the word ...
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Is Missouri called /mi.'zuɹ.ə/ outside of Missouri?
I had multi-generational family from the southern West Plains area. They always said Missour(uh). So did their friends . I’ve always heard it spoke like that. It feels odd saying Missour(ee) I’ve been ...
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Why do some folk songs from 1930s Appalachia pronounce the word 'Jordan' as 'Jerdon'?
As for The Carter Family, the "Program for the Sixtieth Annual Festival of the Worcester County Musical Association," published in 1917, seems to provide the answer in an essay starting on ...
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Why does the word "experience" have a different initial vowel from that in "expert" and "expertise"?
This is a case of vowel reduction (see Wikipedia). In "expert," the initial syllable has primary stress. In "expertise," it has secondary stress. But in "experience," it ...
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Is this pronuncation of "serious" or "series" correct?
In most North American acccents, there is no possible contrast between the vowel sound of sin and that of see when followed directly by an /r/ without a break. See this English Language Learners Stack ...
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B vs P pronunciation?
There's a little whiz of air in the P sound and none in the B sound.
It's kind of like actually saying a little H sound (as in "hooray") right after the P.
When both Americans and the ...
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