Re: YAEPT: track

On 6/12/06, caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...> wrote:
> >veritosproject@... wrote:
>
> >How do you guys pronounce /track/?  I heard a couple Americans saying
> >[tSr\&k], and I was just wondering where that [S] came from.  I
> >actually pronounced it that way until recently, when I consciously
> >tried stopping.
>
> Boy, you never realize until someone points it out.  It's [tSr\&k] for
> me.  I tried a few others: trap, train, trunk, etc.  They all begin
> with [tS], unless I'm very careful.
>
> BTW, I say [bam] for "bomb."
>
> Charlie
>
Nope, it's just [tr\&k] for me: west coast American, with Canadian and
American-midwest influence plus oddballs from who-knows-where.
---larry

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