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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