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In my NZ accent I definitely say "men-shin" not "men-chin", though those two sounds are very close.
by intellirogue 6y ago
In my NZ accent I definitely say "men-shin" not "men-chin", though those two sounds are very close.
- matt-attack 6y agoI’m a native speaker and I frankly don’t know which I use. I could see it going either way.
- saalweachter 6y agoThis is, incidentally, one of the tricky parts of trying to add a phonetic spelling to English. Should the phonetic spelling of "mention" be "menshin" or "menchin"? Should the spelling be the same everywhere, with people pronouncing it the other way having to learn to spell it correctly, or should it be spelled differently depending on the dialect of the speaker?
- jdminhbg 6y agoInteresting. Listening to it in a NZ accent I can hear it.