I am finding this specific comment fascinating, as your two sibling comments--which I presume, like me, are native English speakers (I specifically am from the

I am finding this specific comment fascinating, as your two sibling comments--which I presume, like me, are native English speakers (I specifically am from the mid-wear, importantly near Chicago, with a slight bit of Southern, and now I have spent half my life in California)--believe "not C" to be pronounced the same as "nazi". FWIW, they aren't the same, even when said quickly; but I will claim the difference is entirely in the syllable stress: nah-TZSEE (the T in "not" is unvoiced due to collision with the tongue position of speaking the letter "C", even when said slowly, unless "enunciating") vs NAH-tzsee; but the underlying sounds are exactly the same... similar to how "content" has to very different meanings as each of an adjective ("i am content with that") and a noun ("i posted some content") and are pronounced very differently, and yet the same ;P.