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how do you pronounce the word can't
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18 Nov 2021, 13:00by meriad
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
Re: how do you pronounce the word can't
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18 Nov 2021, 13:17by Workingman
A slow day down Woking way?
"Carnt" round this way, sort of, but the r is almost a glottal stop. A bit like CArNT, if that makes sense.
Re: how do you pronounce the word can't
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18 Nov 2021, 13:40by jenniren
The latter Ria.
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Re: how do you pronounce the word can't
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18 Nov 2021, 14:23by Kaz
Carnt
But then you've heard me talk lots of times
Re: how do you pronounce the word can't
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18 Nov 2021, 18:14by miasmum
Carn't but round this way we get lots of kent be bothered too
Re: how do you pronounce the word can't
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18 Nov 2021, 18:25by Osc
Can’t - us Irish know how to talk proper
Re: how do you pronounce the word can't
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18 Nov 2021, 19:09by JanB
Re: how do you pronounce the word can't
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18 Nov 2021, 19:13by TheOstrich
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?
Re: how do you pronounce the word can't
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18 Nov 2021, 22:47by victor
Casn't is another good Darset word.
As in----- casn't see as well as could cas
Re: how do you pronounce the word can't
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19 Nov 2021, 08:09by meriad
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 ?