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Re: /Linguistics: Curious to see how people across the globe pronounce this DomA Send a noteboard - 13/07/2012 12:45:03 PM
Asked this earlier on Twitter:

When pronouncing "dr" at the beginning, e.g. "dragon," does the "dr" sound like "dj," "j," or "dur"? (Assuming designated English pronunciations for those letters/combinations).

I found myself thinking about this after seeing the scroll on ESPN earlier about the brother of a basketball player, Jrue Holliday. I thought that when I mentally said "Drew," it did sound almost like "Jrue" and that led me to think a bit about the question above.

Curious to see what others have to say on this picayune issue ;)


Sorry for the poor technical vocabulary, my phonetics courses go back 25 years and I never learned the terms in English :) In French both the "d" and "r" in that pairing are more distinct, sharper and (in some cases. The way we'd pronounce Drew would be one of those) shorter than in English. There's never a hint of "j" in "dr", as there's no d sound to any of our j's either). Pronunciation of dr is not all that different from English, but with a native French speaker the lips would more open and the tongue position different when saying it.
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/Linguistics: Curious to see how people across the globe pronounce this Larry - 13/07/2012 07:02:35 AM 1869 Views
Re: /Linguistics: Curious to see how people across the globe pronounce this DomA - 13/07/2012 12:45:03 PM 668 Views
I think I get the picture Larry - 13/07/2012 10:21:37 PM 800 Views
I don't include a j sound. Narg - 13/07/2012 03:53:20 PM 675 Views
Interesting Larry - 13/07/2012 10:19:19 PM 646 Views
neither.... who says dur-agon? i don't palatalize the cluster. *NM* temeraire - 13/07/2012 05:23:45 PM 312 Views
Some Southerners? *NM* Larry - 13/07/2012 10:18:36 PM 297 Views
heh... another interesting feature of aave/southern dialects is str as shtr, i.e. shtress *NM* temeraire - 14/07/2012 04:28:05 PM 311 Views
I've heard that before as well, now that you mention it Larry - 14/07/2012 04:50:34 PM 677 Views
That's not Received Pronunciation. If I were dictator, we would beat people to force them to quit. Tom - 13/07/2012 09:40:16 PM 644 Views
So no "tyune" for "tune"? Larry - 13/07/2012 10:15:05 PM 708 Views
At least no "chune" for "tune" Tom - 13/07/2012 11:42:12 PM 607 Views
And I thought "tyune" was RP, actually. *NM* Tom - 13/07/2012 11:42:56 PM 285 Views
I think so. *NM* Rebekah - 13/07/2012 11:47:20 PM 261 Views
Re: So no "toon" for "tune"? <-- Fixed that for you. *NM* Tim - 13/07/2012 11:50:32 PM 294 Views
Ha, no, I don't speak like a Yankee Larry - 14/07/2012 01:02:03 AM 684 Views
Not very good with the linguistics terminology, but I just say, well, "dr". Legolas - 13/07/2012 09:54:08 PM 651 Views
That "jr" in "Jrue" is SAE-Ebonics phonetic spelling Larry - 13/07/2012 10:18:08 PM 775 Views
How are "dj" and "j" supposed to differ? Can I have that in IPA please? Tim - 13/07/2012 11:49:02 PM 651 Views
Sure, if I can copy/paste this in Larry - 14/07/2012 01:00:04 AM 651 Views
Thanks, that makes sense now. Tim - 14/07/2012 10:31:07 AM 604 Views
Re: Thanks, that makes sense now. Larry - 14/07/2012 11:13:25 AM 635 Views
Had to think about it for a moment but... everynametaken - 14/07/2012 07:23:30 AM 605 Views
I guess it's closest to "dur" LadyLorraine - 15/07/2012 04:37:15 PM 911 Views
Dur, it's dur! LordPerrin - 16/07/2012 05:30:28 AM 730 Views
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