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Re: YAEPT: track

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Monday, June 12, 2006, 20:53
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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