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How do you pronounce "got" when speaking casually, e.g. "I got a meeting tomorrow"?

What is the vowel sound heard in informal speech? Please use the international phonemic alphabet and/or examples.

Thanks.

My IPA font isn't working at the moment. Sorry.

Let's try it this way.

In North American English, the vowel in got isn't pronounced [o], as in hope. It's pronounced [a] as in father. Like this, g[a]t, and it rhymes with "hot".

This is how got is pronounced in your example sentence,

Ex: I g[a]'[D]uh meeting tomorrow.

Hopefully someone will come along with an IPA version.

All the best. :-)

/aı gɔt/

Sometimes (especially in more formal contexts, in BE anyway) /aıv gɔt/.

In colloquial speech, the /t/ is often realized as a glottal stop [ʔ] (I think that's the right symbol)..

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Originally Posted by BobK

/aı gɔt/

Sometimes (especially in more formal contexts, in BE anyway) /aıv gɔt/.

In colloquial speech, the /t/ is often realized as a glottal stop [ʔ] (I think that's the right symbol)..

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It's always I've got in BrE even informally.

[quote=curmudgeon;142392]It's always I've got in BrE even informally.

In AmE they prefer Past Simple . I can hear sentences like this : I just saw him. ....;-)

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Originally Posted by Casiopea

My IPA font isn't working at the moment. Sorry.

Let's try it this way.

In North American English, the vowel in got isn't pronounced [o], as in hope. It's pronounced [a] as in father. Like this, g[a]t, and it rhymes with "hot".

This is how got is pronounced in your example sentence,

Ex: I g[a]'[D]uh meeting tomorrow.

Hopefully someone will come along with an IPA version.

All the best. :-)

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this has to do with the aspect (in connected speech) called assimilation and in this case the voiceless /t/ is voiced, becoming a kind of /d/ and this often happens when /t/ (voiceless) is surrounded by voiced sounds in a single, two-syllable word . Ex: matter, butter, dirty,etc.

but when we pronounce for example: I got to go, isn't an /r/ sound heard instead of /d/ ?

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Originally Posted by Casiopea

My IPA font isn't working at the moment. Sorry.

Let's try it this way.

In North American English, the vowel in got isn't pronounced [o], as in hope. It's pronounced [a] as in father. Like this, g[a]t, and it rhymes with "hot".

This is how got is pronounced in your example sentence,

Ex: I g[a]'[D]uh meeting tomorrow.

Hopefully someone will come along with an IPA version.

All the best. :-)

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"Got" is only pronounced [gat] in the North. In the West, it's pronounced as [gɑt] or [gɔt] (with the CVS).

In General American, "got a" is pronounced with an alveolar flap, rather than a [d].