"drawer"

Kirk   Saturday, January 22, 2005, 04:35 GMT
I basically pronounce that sentence the same...save for "wanted", which I pronounce [wa:ntid], or [wa:nid] in normal speech. In fast conversational speech I'd pronounce this sentence:

[w^t mai fa:TH..r tOuld TH.. ko:r4 i: @d wa:nid w^z na:t t.. bi: ka:t with .. ko:r4 ^v wa:4..r in TH.. ka:4 ^v iz da:4..r a:l hid.n ..wei in TH.. ka:r4 ^v iz br^TH..r]

[4] is the alveolar tap.

And, by the way, where are you from?
cot-caught merger   Saturday, January 22, 2005, 13:44 GMT
I'm from Florida.
phone   Saturday, January 22, 2005, 13:47 GMT
Kirk, what about the words ''fire'', ''flour'', ''coir'', ''oil'', ''owl'', ''tile'' and ''world''? How do you pronounce those? I pronounce them [fai..r], [flau..r], [koi..r], [oi..l], [au..l], [tai..l] and [we:r..d] with two syllables.
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