How do you pronounce 'To'?

raah!

Go in-tuh dah rum. Savages.

Liam Byrne

The King of Moo wrote: »

"2" in isolation, but usually in the middle of a sentence in casual conversation it'll be squished between words into a "tuh" sound.

Would that be "intuh" ?

P.S. OP - what's "indentically" ? Is it where you say "[tab]" ?

FTGFOP

Liam Byrne wrote: »

Would that be "intuh" ?

It would for me, like the 'to' in 'tomatoes'.

Liam Byrne wrote: »

P.S. OP - what's "indentically" ? Is it where you say "[tab]" ?

That was a mistake, Muphry's law at play.

pickarooney

LordSutch wrote: »

So if To is not pronounced as Too, or Two, then how should you pronounce to?

Surely they are all pronounced in the same way, albeit with different spellings & different meanings.

Basic stuff really ......................

See post 7

The Mad Hatter

Tin Foil Hat on page one has it, with /tə/. Edit: And pickarooney.

The "ə" is called a "schwa" sound (stupid name, I know). It's basically what we squish vowel sounds into when they're not very important.

Essentially, if we pronounced every syllable in every word we said, it'd take forever to say anything and it'd sound very strange. It's one of the reasons early computer voices sounded so wrong.

The King of Moo

Liam Byrne wrote: »

Would that be "intuh" ?

P.S. OP - what's "indentically" ? Is it where you say "[tab]" ?

Actually, in that case I'd stress the 'o' and pronounce it 'intoo' because it's before a vowel sound. Thinking about it now, I would say 'tuh' or 'intuh' before a consonant sound but not before a vowel sound. For example: "I'm going tuh go intuh town now, and appear naked too everyone."

LordSutch

pickarooney wrote: »

See post 7

Ah I see, you speak differently from me, fair enough.

Sea Sharp

'tuh' or 'two'.
I use both cause I'm a mad ba$tard so I am.

The King of Moo

The Mad Hatter wrote: »

Tin Foil Hat on page one has it, with /tə/. Edit: And pickarooney.

The "ə" is called a "schwa" sound (stupid name, I know). It's basically what we squish vowel sounds into when they're not very important.

Essentially, if we pronounced every syllable in every word we said, it'd take forever to say anything and it'd sound very strange. It's one of the reasons early computer voices sounded so wrong.

Exactly, you notice the difference with lots of people whose mother tongues are mainly phonetic like Spanish or Italian when they speak English, and have lots of trouble with the schwa.
For example, they'd say "capital" with the second "a" sounding exactly like the first. It's a tough area for English learners as it's not often clear when to use "ə".

Liam Byrne

Muphry's playing havoc today!!!!!

FTGFOP wrote: »

It would for me, like the 'to' in 'tomatoes'.

Which one ?

FTGFOP

You can't pull the o away from the e like that! So the first 'to', of course.