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> Pronouncing every single letter.

Now I want to know how you pronounce words like: through, bivouac, and queue.



You don’t pronounce all the letters?


no. ever heard of silent letters?


I'm a native speaker of English, northern California dialect. I pronounce every one of those letters, to varying degrees. Some just affect the mouth shape by subtle amounts, but it is there.

> I pronounce every one of those letters, to varying degrees

That must be fun any time you talk about Worcestershire (the sauce or the place).


I was only talking about the examples given.



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