Re: YAEPT: track

Larry Sulky wrote:

> On 6/12/06, caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...> wrote:
>
>> >veritosproject@... wrote:
>>
>> >How do you guys pronounce /track/?  I heard a couple Americans saying
>> >[tSr\&k], and I was just wondering where that [S] came from.  I
>> >actually pronounced it that way until recently, when I consciously
>> >tried stopping.
>>
>> Boy, you never realize until someone points it out.  It's [tSr\&k] for
>> me.  I tried a few others: trap, train, trunk, etc.  They all begin
>> with [tS], unless I'm very careful.
>>
>> BTW, I say [bam] for "bomb."
>>
>> Charlie
>>
>
> Nope, it's just [tr\&k] for me: west coast American, with Canadian and
> American-midwest influence plus oddballs from who-knows-where.
>
I'm wrong about it's universality, then.  But it definitely occurs in
the UK and (I think) Australia.

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