Re: here is some stuff i want all of ya'll to look at even though you have better things to do.

Philip Newton scripsit:

> >    [hi "lIsnz tu T@ "mju:zIk] <-- My German biased
> >                                   pronounciation* ;-)
>
> :) "the" is [D@] not [T@], at least in the 'lects I'm familiar with.
> Otherwise, I'd agree with your transcription - though I might have
> written ["lIsn=z] to mark the syllabic [n=].
Indeed.  I also say this with reduced "to" [t@], or even fully
reduced "to the" [tT@].

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