No, native speakers would more likely say: (a hump uhn uh hairpiece). If you were trying to emphasize the "and", it would be , which would mean for example: "Yes, I have a hump, but most importantly in addition I also have a hairpiece."

Well, part of the reason it's considered to be the "most spoken language", is because of nationalistic reasons. Most varieties of the Sino-Tibetan language family are all called "Chinese", but that doesn't make them have any more claim to be the

>> So you mean we need read them just as two word--wi th th ese, and the pronunciations of them are the same, right? << No. Remember that although the "th" in "with" and the "th" in "these" are written the same way, they are as

>> Marvin, did you mean the other way around? A voiceless one followed by a voiced one? << yeah, sorry I didn't proofread.

Well, the easiest way (but not 100% accurate) of describing it would be to say an unreleased voiced interdental fricative followed by a voiceless one: so something like:

>> I mean the pronunciation in North America << That's what I gave: . So, what happened is either the "d" dropped off and a sycophantic "t" was inserted between the "n" and the "s", or the "d" simply devoiced into a "t", because it was

>> Well... I've heard gone-yay'.<< Does the "gone" have the same vowel sound as "dawn" or "don"?

>> But in Maine, where they over-Anglicize the French last names, believe it or not, it's gag'-nee. << Do they have tensing before /g/ in Maine like they do here?

I would pronounce it

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