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how do you pronounce the word can't

Postby meriad » 18 Nov 2021, 13:00

do you say

can followed by the nt; or
car followed by the nt

I do the latter so pronounce it more like carn't but I was listening to a radio commercial and they use the top one; and it made me wonder what is more common. Just pondering
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Re: how do you pronounce the word can't

Postby Workingman » 18 Nov 2021, 13:17

A slow day down Woking way? ;) :lol: :lol:

"Carnt" round this way, sort of, but the r is almost a glottal stop. A bit like CArNT, if that makes sense.
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Re: how do you pronounce the word can't

Postby jenniren » 18 Nov 2021, 13:40

The latter Ria.

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Re: how do you pronounce the word can't

Postby Kaz » 18 Nov 2021, 14:23

Carnt :) But then you've heard me talk lots of times :lol:
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Re: how do you pronounce the word can't

Postby miasmum » 18 Nov 2021, 18:14

Carn't but round this way we get lots of kent be bothered too
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Re: how do you pronounce the word can't

Postby Osc » 18 Nov 2021, 18:25

Can’t - us Irish know how to talk proper :P
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Re: how do you pronounce the word can't

Postby JanB » 18 Nov 2021, 19:09

:lol: :lol:

Ãnd us scouse ;)
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Re: how do you pronounce the word can't

Postby TheOstrich » 18 Nov 2021, 19:13

Carnt, like everyone else.

But can't is an abbreviation for "cannot" or "can not" and it sounds like your radio commercial was saying that, the full word, Meriad?
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Re: how do you pronounce the word can't

Postby victor » 18 Nov 2021, 22:47

Casn't is another good Darset word.

As in----- casn't see as well as could cas
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Re: how do you pronounce the word can't

Postby meriad » 19 Nov 2021, 08:09

TheOstrich wrote:Carnt, like everyone else.

But can't is an abbreviation for "cannot" or "can not" and it sounds like your radio commercial was saying that, the full word, Meriad?


no... it's an ad for BT fibre broadband and he's saying: I can probably stop this now, can't I ?
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