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I hear all people around me they pronounce it as "TV", but today I saw it in a dictionary was marked as "T@I"
How you guys pronounce it?
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If your transcriptions are in X-SAMPA, you should enclose them in square brackets [] for phonetic or slashes // for phonemic transcriptions. Assuming that this is X-SAMPA, I've never heard anyone say [TV] for 'thigh' and I can't imagine this is the normal pronunciation in any native variety of English. This would have been /Ti:x/ in Middle English (if I'm not mistaken), so the only possible outcomes are /TaI/ (RP and GenAm) and /Ti:/ (Northern English traditional-dialect). Also, /V/ is a checked vowel in all accents of English I know of, so it couldn't end a word.
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well im not good at this, I mean X-SAMPA, probably [Ta]? cuz i wasn't born in a english speaking country, but i heard a lot of times they pronounce this word without the [I] in the end of, or... I made a mistake? and I still remember that once Beyonce pronounced it withou [I] in a TV show, more like the word thuck without [K] in the end of.
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I pronounce it [TaI]. I have never heard anyone say [TV] or [Ta] or whatever.
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<<but i heard a lot of times they pronounce this word without the [I] in the end of, or... I made a mistake? and I still remember that once Beyonce pronounced it withou [I] in a TV show, more like the word thuck without [K] in the end of.>>
This is known as glide reduction. In Southern American English (SAE), and African American Vernacular English (AAVE), the diphthong /aI/ is often pronounced [a:] or [aE], especially in open syllables or before voiced consonants. Beyoncé is an AAVE speaker, so she most likely uses [a:] for /aI/. This isn't the standard pronunciation in any English speaking country. If stick with [aI] you'll do fine, though you may want to keep in mind that native English speakers use a wide variety of realizations of this phoneme: [aI, @I, AI, QI, a:, aE] and maybe others I can't remember right now.
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