Hi Everybody,
Tell me how do you pronounce the past tense of eat, "ate"? There are two versions of pronunciation I have ever heard before....
WYH
Or this one, which has someone to pronounce the words for us:
Dictionary, Encyclopedia and Thesaurus
This one is even better, type the sentences and click the button:
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I'm in the 'real world' and I pronounce it [et] or [ɛt]. I don't know how I would choose which I say, just depends on who I'm talking to I guess.
I should point out here that I'm using IPA symbols. I've noticed that dictionaries use the vowel /e/ to represent the vowel I would write as /ɛ/. See this link for a pronunciation of the sounds.
The International Phonetic Alphabet - Audio Illustrations
My accent is Scottish English, which has hardly any diphthongs.
Do you know how RP speakers pronounce ""[FONT="][FONT="]eɪt[/FONT][/FONT]" or "[FONT="][FONT="]et[/FONT][/FONT]"?