> 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

> 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.