When you say "height" to you pronounce the "t"?
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Trudy Booth - Nov 12, 2007 5:55:12 am PST #1893 of 10001
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Pix - Nov 12, 2007 5:57:54 am PST #1894 of 10001
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Yeppers.
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shrift - Nov 12, 2007 5:58:25 am PST #1895 of 10001
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Sophia Brooks - Nov 12, 2007 5:59:40 am PST #1896 of 10001
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I say the t in height, but not the t in often. I have the same "hick" vs "affected" problem as tommyrot with that word. And also with "aunt"
lisah - Nov 12, 2007 6:00:30 am PST #1897 of 10001
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I don't get how someone could not say the 't' in height.
Jesse - Nov 12, 2007 6:00:35 am PST #1898 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I don't say the t in often, and pronouncing height with a th sound at the end is one of my pet peeves.
Kat - Nov 12, 2007 6:01:25 am PST #1899 of 10001
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tommyrot - Nov 12, 2007 6:02:30 am PST #1900 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
And also with "aunt"
In 9th grade English, my teacher asked to to raise our hands if we pronounced "aunt" as "ant" or "awnt." I was the only one in the class who pronounced it "awnt." So at some point I decided to conform and pronounce it "ant." I pronounced it that way for years. Now I've sorta' switched back to "awnt."
Scrappy - Nov 12, 2007 6:06:55 am PST #1901 of 10001
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Ant and off-en here. I also say "mirror" as meer, from being brought up in Milwaukee.
Trudy Booth - Nov 12, 2007 6:07:11 am PST #1902 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I don't say the t in often, and pronouncing height with a th sound at the end is one of my pet peeves.
Hmm... I didn't even think about the third pronunciation.
You've got:
HeighT (where you say the "t")
Heigh
t
(where you sort of swallow the "t"/make it nearly a "d")
Heighth
I deffinately do the second -- pure Jersey T. Acting school really didn't train that one out of me. (So much so that it didn't even occur to me that I wasn't pronouncing the "t".)