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As a Polish speaker, I have no problem pronouncing debt. Depth is debt-hhhh for me :) Now you make me wonder if English speakers ever pronounce dept. literally

• pessimizer 5y ago
  I hate to contradict my sibling, but I've never heard anyone pronounce "dept." as anything other than "department."
• julesnp 5y ago
  We do in a different word: adept :)
  • pessimizer 5y ago
    This got me there by saying 'adebt' over and over again. Thanks.
• nicoburns 5y ago
  > Now you make me wonder if English speakers ever pronounce dept. literally. Not often, but "dept" if sometimes used as a short form of "department" in written form, and I've heard people pronounce it literally before. It certainly can be pronounced distinctly from both "debt" and "depth" by native english speakers.
• tsimionescu 5y ago
  Note: native English speakers don't pronounce "depth" with a t and h sound, they use a different consonant, where you basically bite the tip of your tongue and blow air over it, without engaging your vocal chords (the "th" in "the" is pronounced the same, but this time using your vocal chords as well - like the difference between 'p' and 'b').