My students always have questions about this pronunciation feature. I know of four patterns that might help you predict where to pronounce 't' as a soft /d/. 1. when a ‘t’ is between vowels when the preceding vowel is stressed in words

CalifJim wrote: I thought you were only looking for irregular verb forms. I am indeed looking for something like irregular verb forms. The comparison with bays, days, etc. is just a remark. But what is intriguing is that says is not an

I cannot find any word with ay or ai that is pronounced this way, except those with -says or -said at the end. I thought you were only looking for irregular verb forms. again and against also have ai as a lax e , if that's what you want

I hear that very often. I guess that phenomenon has something to do with lazy pronunciation, since I heard it mostly in songs, especially in rock or metal songs where singers shout and don't articulate the words properly. While I'm writing this

8. Why do you say “She is a one-eyed teacher” and not “ She’s an one eyed teacher”? (Focus on a phonetic explanation) The article an is used before vowel sounds, not vowel letters. The word one is pronounced wun . The w is not a vowel sound even

CalifJim wrote: er , ir , and ur followed by a consonant or at the end of a word are all pronounced the same. term, bird, turn, her, sir, fur verb, shirt, hurt, verse, dirge, curve ear followed by a consonant (but not at the end of

Mister Micawber wrote: Here are a few: alert, avert, berserk, blur, blurt, burn, burst, burl, churn, circle, curt, curse, curds, colonel, curl, concern, discern, dessert, dirk, earn, erstwhile, exert, fern, fertile, girl, gird, hurt, hearse,

It sounds a little more like morphology, but I could be wrong. There are numerous cases where a particular alternation between two vowels (or consonants) occurs in this way. They occur in both the Germanic and Latinate components of English.

Yes. er , ir , and ur followed by a consonant or at the end of a word are all pronounced the same. term, bird, turn, her, sir, fur verb, shirt, hurt, verse, dirge, curve ear followed by a consonant (but not at the end of a word) is

I'm not familiar with MLB. In American English it is very common to omit the "t" when it follows a stressed syllable ending in "n" and precedes an unstressed syllable beginning with a vowel. "winter" and "winner" are indistinguishable. The