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Interesting Larry Send a noteboard - 13/07/2012 10:19:19 PM
But i commonly hear it pronounced both with a j sound and without. I live in the pacific northwest USA in case you were looking for datapoints from various regions.


So it isn't just a Southern/African-American speech thing, perhaps?
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/Linguistics: Curious to see how people across the globe pronounce this - 13/07/2012 07:02:35 AM 1654 Views
Re: /Linguistics: Curious to see how people across the globe pronounce this - 13/07/2012 12:45:03 PM 458 Views
I think I get the picture - 13/07/2012 10:21:37 PM 562 Views
I don't include a j sound. - 13/07/2012 03:53:20 PM 455 Views
Interesting - 13/07/2012 10:19:19 PM 423 Views
neither.... who says dur-agon? i don't palatalize the cluster. *NM* - 13/07/2012 05:23:45 PM 223 Views
Some Southerners? *NM* - 13/07/2012 10:18:36 PM 215 Views
That's not Received Pronunciation. If I were dictator, we would beat people to force them to quit. - 13/07/2012 09:40:16 PM 439 Views
So no "tyune" for "tune"? - 13/07/2012 10:15:05 PM 491 Views
At least no "chune" for "tune" - 13/07/2012 11:42:12 PM 412 Views
And I thought "tyune" was RP, actually. *NM* - 13/07/2012 11:42:56 PM 188 Views
I think so. *NM* - 13/07/2012 11:47:20 PM 175 Views
Re: So no "toon" for "tune"? <-- Fixed that for you. *NM* - 13/07/2012 11:50:32 PM 207 Views
Ha, no, I don't speak like a Yankee - 14/07/2012 01:02:03 AM 467 Views
Not very good with the linguistics terminology, but I just say, well, "dr". - 13/07/2012 09:54:08 PM 417 Views
That "jr" in "Jrue" is SAE-Ebonics phonetic spelling - 13/07/2012 10:18:08 PM 557 Views
How are "dj" and "j" supposed to differ? Can I have that in IPA please? - 13/07/2012 11:49:02 PM 449 Views
Sure, if I can copy/paste this in - 14/07/2012 01:00:04 AM 436 Views
Thanks, that makes sense now. - 14/07/2012 10:31:07 AM 394 Views
Re: Thanks, that makes sense now. - 14/07/2012 11:13:25 AM 425 Views
Had to think about it for a moment but... - 14/07/2012 07:23:30 AM 404 Views
I guess it's closest to "dur" - 15/07/2012 04:37:15 PM 596 Views
Dur, it's dur! - 16/07/2012 05:30:28 AM 474 Views

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