I saw someone on american tv saying the word "try" as something like "troy". I was wondering where people speak like that. Can anyone here help me identifiyng this accent?
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Pronunciation of the word try
I saw someone on american tv saying the word "try" as something like "troy". I was wondering where people speak like that. Can anyone here help me identifiyng this accent?
Thank you.
If it were a British person, I'd say West Country. My 5-year old pronounces "pie" as "poi" due to local accent influence at nursery and school. That's OK, he just sounds like a little pirate.
I guess we'll have to wait for an American to answer.
Why's that? I'm with you guys. It's a British, Irish, and Aussie thing. We don't say "troy" here that I know of, probably because our AI diphthong is shifted a little more toward the AH side of things.
Some people in England also start /aI/ vowel in the same place (onset) as in General American ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNyS1zOLLEE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T62oxc15mo It is also used in Ireland: http://web.ku.edu/~idea/europe/ireland/ireland11.mp3 According to Wikipedia, and some books about Estuary English, in Southern England (except London) /oI/ in 'night' shifts to /ɑɪ/....
Indeed, I've never heard troy for from an American's lips. Lechato, you saw this on American television, are you sure that the person saying it was, indeed, American? Or could they have been trying to duplicate the troy sound of some British and Australian accents? Another possible alternative is that the accent is one of the New York accents, and you are not translating the sound quite accurately. Honestly, It would take someone far more skilled than I to translate the Drescherian try into a regular phonetic model.
his use of the word trying was trypical not troying. His pronunciation of guy, "goy" was odd, but this is affected.
I would say that "troy" is the stereotypical Brooklyn accent type pronunciation. Not that people from Brooklyn necessarily pronounce it that way, but that's the stereotype.
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