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What is the difference between blanket (ˈblæŋkət) and blanket (ˈbliŋkət) why someone say it with "i"? ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between blanket (ˈblæŋkət) and blanket (ˈbliŋkət) why someone say it with "i"? ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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- Ukrainian Near fluent
it's pronounced ˈblæŋkɪt', never heard it with 'i'
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@tinlag
English is spoken by literally hundreds of millions of people, most of them as a second language, so you are going to hear every imaginable variation upon pronunciation if you look closely enough. So you shouldn’t be amazed by it. Your real question should be – which pronunciation should I be modelling myself on so that I can be understood by the maximum amount of people?
All day long we have people posting questions here saying – how can I get rid of my accent? Why does one person pronounce it this way and another person pronounce it another way? Wrong wrong wrong wrong. You should have one focus – to make yourself as easily understandable as possible.
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- English (US)
It could be a regional dialect. There's a large region of the US that says "pin" and "pen" the same way, but I too have never heard of a "blinket", but we had people in my school argue about "bag". I don't know the IPA, but it was A as in say vs the a in Tag. This also carried over into "bagel", where someone said "b-ay-gel" and others "beg-il".
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@isthmus_x That's an excellent point. I grew up with people who don't speak correctly, so I would not recommend modelling them, but they're still "native speakers" XD.
"I done seen a deer." Please don't say this :(
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@Fodagus
I’ll happily take that 365 days over the fucking Scots 😂 I mean, they are genius people, but when are we just going to admit that it’s a different language?
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