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Baseet Ahmed wrote:
"T" and "o" is To (sounds Two)
Matthew Brown wrote:That's not how I'd pronounce it.
Jesper de Jong wrote:What's the difference between the pronunciation of "to" and "two"? (I'm not a native English speaker, so I'm curious to know).
Baseet Ahmed wrote:But still the question remains "about the difference of sounds reason?
Baseet Ahmed wrote:
As per my knowledge, here is the list:
Similar Sounds Group 1:
Do
To
Similar Sounds Group 2:
Co
Go
No
So
In day to day life, these are the words used by general English speakers.
But still the question remains "about the difference of sounds reason?
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Ahmed
Dennis Deems wrote:The same must be true for at least some of the UK: George Harrison rhymes "to" with "you"; W. S. Gilbert rhymes "you" with "too" with "bedew".
Matthew Brown wrote:I'd pronounce "to" as a short vowel - sort of the equivalent as "put" or "wood". I think that's how I'd expect English-English speakers to usually pronounce it as well, though it probably varies by regional accent.
The Oxford English Dictionary has the pronunciation of "two" as /tuː/, whereas it has "to" as /tuː/ /tʊ/ /tə/ . Which suggests they can be the same.
Jesper de Jong wrote:
Baseet Ahmed wrote:But still the question remains "about the difference of sounds reason?
Several people have already answered that question. The answer is that English, just like any other human language, does not consist of an exact set of rules that are always strictly followed. Similar words most likely exist in your own native language.
Jayesh A Lalwani wrote:In phonetic languages, you pronounce the word as it's written.
Jesper de Jong wrote:I remember from when I was a student having a discussion with other students from different countries, about which of our languages was spoken exactly as it was written.
Some French students argued that French is pronounced exactly as it is written. The others didn't agree. For example, the French don't pronounce the letter "H" even though they are using it in written language. We all had to conclude that each of our languages had words that are not spoken exactly as they are written down.
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Greg Charles wrote:Imy claim, albeit supported by my very limited experience, is that English is fundamentally different. Its spelling is more bizarre, by several orders of magnitude, than any other language that uses a written alphabet. So far, no one's been able to disprove that claim, or adequately explain to me why English should be such an outlier.
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