[General] The "k" Weekend is unaspirated?

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Hi All,

I always hear people say "Weekend", the pronunciation like "Weegend", I wonder if the k in weekend is an "unaspirated k"

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I use /k/. (BrE speaker)
 

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I always hear people say "Weekend", the pronunciation like "Weegend", I wonder if the k in weekend is an "unaspirated k"
Which people do you hear using this pronunciation? It sounds very unnatural to me. (BrE speaker)
 

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Which native-speaking people do you hear using this pronunciation?
 

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/k/and /kʰ/ are allophones of the same phoneme in English. It's the same word whether a letter is aspirated or not. Unaspirated /k/ is not a /g/. I can't hear any /weegend/ here, and English speakers are poor judges of aspiration anyway because it makes no difference to meaning in English.


“Word-final voiceless stops optionally aspirate.”
Aspirated consonant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
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I don't hear a /g/ in the middle either.
 

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I just watched it and I didn't hear a /g/ either.
 
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