[General] The "k" Weekend is unaspirated?

[EngFan]

Hi All,

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

EngFan

 

[Tdol]

I use /k/. (BrE speaker)

 

[5jj]

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)

 

[EngFan]

Which people do you hear using this pronunciation? It sounds very unnatural to me. (BrE speaker)

Please have a look [08] What did you do last weekend? - YouTube

 

[5jj]

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

 

[Raymott]

/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

 

[konungursvia]

I don't hear a /g/ in the middle either.

 

[Tdol]

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