Pronunciation question (from L. Urdang)

[Doug Harris]

And I'm reminded of the splendid commercial on British TV in the 1970s for,
I believe, a sophisticated beverage: The pretty girl ruins the effect when
she says, "Noice 'ere in'it?"
(the other) doug



In truespel I represent them, ~didint, ~woodint, ~koodint, ~shoodint (
syllables each).  However, "won't" and "don't" are one syllable each.
Interesting about "won't", I often hear it as ~woent and as ~wuent (where
~ue is as in "true").  It's about 50/50.

Tom Zurinskas

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