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Can you say shibboleth
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If anyone's wondering and since it's not clarified here..
Epitome is pronounced like this: ||UK|US| |phonetic|/ɪˈpɪt.ə.mi/|/ɪˈpɪt̬.ə.mi/| |non-phonetic|epittomee|epiddomee|
I've been an avid reader since I was 6/7 and I hate reading dictionary listings with phonetic spellings as ironically they only make it harder for me to know how to pronounce a word. I'm also a native speaker.
Learning the IPA is quite good in that case
I know Americans pronounce Ts as Ds, but reading it explicitly written down is like being poked in the eye
Wait till you find out that they pronounce Ds as semi-trilled Rs!
I don't know what that is but I'm intrigued and afraid!
They're just like trilled Rs, but have only one trill, hence semi-trilled.
I'm trying this out with my own mouth and it's weird
I'll pronounce a T when you pronounce an R
That's a new one, what's wrong with Rs?
Most English people have a non-rhotic accent, meaning not pronouncing the r after vowels so words like "better" become "betta".
This one seems like it's very accent-dependent. A cockney geezer will definitely say "be'aah", but a geordie would say "be'eh and someone from the west country would say "betterrrr". I think the American pronunciation makes the R sound a lot longer (you can tell I don't know all the property linguistics words!) so anything shorter probably sounds weird to you.
I'm sure it's definitely regional, just like accents in the US. But generally in England at least it's non-rhotic. I know Scotland is different, maybe Wales too