[Vocabulary] beefed

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Silverobama

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Hi,

I read this sentence:

During the riots, the nighttime patrol force was beefed up with volunteers.

How do you pronounce "beefed"? Is it "t" or "d"?
 

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In my dialect the d is vocalized clearly because of the following vowel. In the unlikely event that there was no next word starting with a vowel there would be very little difference between beefed and beeft.
 

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In my dialect the d is vocalized clearly because of the following vowel. In the unlikely event that there was no next word starting with a vowel there would be very little difference between beefed and beeft.

You mean in this sentence, it's "....dup" not "....tup"? Am I right?
 

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Yes, it's 'dup' not 'tup'.
 

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It's /d/ to my British ears.
 
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