how do you pronouce words?

galoisien
Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:09:23 +0000

But I hold that saying “of-ten” is a mispronunciation.



Not according to lexicographers…you effectively have free variation in allophony here.

Plus, “oft” is pronounced with the /t/.

And for a while I really thought there was an /l/ in “walk” and “talk”, only that it got obscured phonetically by the middle back vowels.