American English Pronunciation Workbook
Examples of the Consonant [t]
Word Initial
1.
[tu]
too
2.
[tæksɪs]
every other day you start him on taxes and he'll just start fuming
3.
[taɪm]
or you're just gonna go back because you don't know any other way at the time
4.
[tu]
his family leaves he just has complete temper tantrums and he's tried that out a few times too
5.
[tɚm]
term
6.
[tənz]
i mean there's just tons and tons of
7.
[taɪmz]
etc etc and they come here a couple times a year
8.
[taɪpɪŋ]
she'd be down there typing
9.
[taɪm]
she was married too for quite some time
10.
[tɹævl̩]
me yknow the freeways we have here weren't built for the amount of people that travel on them now i remember when they built seventy one north
11.
[tɛst]
essay for for a test
12.
[taɪps]
i don't really keep up with statistics as far as the crime rate and those types of things i mean i don't know
13.
[tɪkɪts]
so uh she gets a lot of tickets
14.
[taɪm]
nothing else to do about it and continue on merrily and he's i he said eventually he said it was some time later when i actually found out
15.
[taɪ]
my wife's been working part time
16.
[tɛəbli]
u p n and fifty three doesn't come in terribly well so
17.
[tu]
talk to them two times each
18.
[tɔk]
no they should talk about i think they should talk about that too
19.
[taɪps]
that our families are very similar i mean we have a lot of the same types of opinions about
20.
[tiʧɚ]
yeah my roommate actually had that teacher and
21.
[twaɪs]
think twice
22.
[teɪp]
i go to the library on my day off and i get two or three books on tape
23.
[tɪɹmənl̩əʤɪ]
get the track terminology there
24.
[tɚmz]
not in the terms of a christian saving but
25.
[teɪkɪn]
they shouldn't have taken it off of the
26.
[teɪkɪm]
the sweats there's some people that have taken pictures of sweat lodges which you're not supposed to do
27.
[teɪkn̩]
i haven't taken him there yet
28.
[tɪɡɛðɚ]
and they live together and uh
29.
[tɪɡɛðɚ]
and one kid he had while we was together
30.
[tɡɛðɚ]
mom and dad aren't together and
Word Medial
31.
[æftɚ]
after her the whole time the minute she walks in the door yknow
32.
[naɪntin]
fall of nineteen forty two i believe
33.
[fɪfti]
um we pay like forty fifty here
34.
[kɑntɛks]
in the same context
35.
[θɔts]
i mean yknow i have little thoughts of like i like
36.
[lɑbstɚ]
until i tried some crab meat and lobster
37.
[kæstɪŋ]
casting off authority and that kind of stuff it was about someone making a bad choice
38.
[sɪstɚz]
my mother's two sisters married southern baptists ministers
39.
[fɪftin]
fifteen thousand people there or something like that
40.
[noʊts]
print promissory notes
41.
[lɛts]
your son's gonna be gay he's two right now let's
42.
[kɹɛɾɪts]
i mean i can practically graduate already i have all the credits
43.
[dɑktɚɹ]
his doctor um
44.
[ɹɪtaɪɚd]
retired is basically um
45.
[eɪtin]
eighteen nineteen votes
46.
[ɪtɹniʃ]
you get the attorneys trying to argue that well mcdonalds
47.
[æftɚ]
after the
48.
[kɛɹktɚ]
and she's an interesting character i guess i mean
49.
[pɹɪtɛkʃɪn]
that protection like they said normally you use it against somebody you didn't mean to use it on
50.
[hɛzɪteɪʔt]
we don't hesitate
51.
[kɑntɪnuɪɾi]
a greater degree of continuity from episode to episode
52.
[əsɪstɪŋ]
did some assistant coach
After /s/
53.
[stəl]
and you kinda knew everybody around the neighborhood but i think that that's still
54.
[stɹiʔt]
worked on front street
55.
[stoʊɹ]
there's a girl at the store i was talking to and uh
56.
[stəf]
abuse stuff and i was like
57.
[stɑɹɾɪɾ]
it's a cartoon i believe it started out
58.
[stæmpʔt]
captain janeway being a female in the leadership standpoint but i
59.
[stɹeɪɾ]
even though they got straight a's
60.
[studn̩ʔt]
actually getting to know the student
61.
[stəf]
when you go down there doesn't really help to see that stuff because it reminds you of
62.
[stəf]
the regular rooms are still nice and they have showers and stuff
63.
[steɪʔt]
plus its a nationally recognized school so a degree from ohio state
64.
[stɑp]
course i'm gonna get stopped for suspicious person everywhere i go
65.
[stɪl]
most people make fun of me for still wearing detroit hats and being a detroit fan because i've lived in ohio for so long
66.
[stɹɔŋ]
yknow she's she's really strong about that though because
67.
[ɪkstɹimz]
but then you go to a lot of other extremes yknow where you set there and these people wouldn't
68.
[stɪtɪstɪk]
ninety nine times out of a hundred i don't know if that's a good statistic
Word Final
69.
[æsɛt]
asset
70.
[pɹist]
uh have been delegated outside of the duties of the priest
71.
[list]
and they have no means to help themselves at least if you
72.
[pət]
but uh
73.
[bət]
but
74.
[ɹeɪsɪst]
a little bit more racist
75.
[pɔɪnt]
but i didn't know that until i was done with my freshman year with a one point seven g p a
76.
[skɹɪpt]
yeah you have you follow the script it that that's real funny too
77.
[ðæt]
that
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