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JasleenKaur wrote:I am pronouncing Sa-cher-day is that right ?
tutorpace wrote:How to pronounce Saturday in American English
/ˈsæt̬·ər·deɪ, -ˌdi/
linguoboy wrote:tutorpace wrote:How to pronounce Saturday in American English
/ˈsæt̬·ər·deɪ, -ˌdi/
What's the logic in using [t] with a voicing diacritic [◌̬] to indicate a voiced alveolar flap rather than the dedicated symbol for a voiced alveolar flap [ɾ]?
Koko wrote:In any case, there's no logic in even indicating an alveolar flap, since they were using broad transcription.
linguoboy wrote:It never occurred to me it would be such a problem for non-native speakers to know when u represented /juː/ and when it didn't.
linguoboy wrote:It never occurred to me it would be such a problem for non-native speakers to know when u represented /juː/ and when it didn't.
Cesare M. wrote:We pronounce it "Sa-ter-day".
linguoboy wrote:I disagree. I don't recall ever hearing a Canadian fail to flap the /t/ in this word.
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