''twenty''

SpaceFlight   Fri Dec 30, 2005 10:37 pm GMT
How do you pronounce the word ''twenty''? I pronounce it /twVni/ or /twVnti/ never */twEn(t)i/.
Travis   Fri Dec 30, 2005 11:01 pm GMT
I myself pronounce it as /twVnti/ -> formally [t_hw_0V~.4~i] and informally [t_hw_0VI~], where [VI~] is a single nasalized diphthong.
Kirk   Sat Dec 31, 2005 12:11 am GMT
["twEni], here.
Travis   Sat Dec 31, 2005 12:20 am GMT
Note that I meant to write /"tw@nti/ in my previous post above.
Lazar   Sat Dec 31, 2005 6:48 am GMT
I always pronounce it as [twEni], never with [nt] or [V].
Mxsmanic   Sat Dec 31, 2005 7:26 am GMT
I usually pronounce it [ˈtwʌni] in normal speech.
Travis   Sat Dec 31, 2005 7:54 am GMT
One note, though, is that [t] or [t_h] corresponding to the second /t/ in "twenty" never "reach the surface" in my realizations of "twenty". Rather, said /t/ in such serves solely to make sure that the proper realization occurs. This is because without it, one would not have a short vowel in the first syllable of "twenty" and one would not have [4~] in second syllable the formal pronunciation of "twenty" in my dialect.