{"id":1333,"date":"2015-04-30T06:39:39","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T10:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rachel-smith-live.prev21.rmkr.net\/?p=1333"},"modified":"2024-06-09T10:41:26","modified_gmt":"2024-06-09T10:41:26","slug":"pronounce-contractions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rachelsenglish.com\/pronounce-contractions\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Pronounce Contractions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This video goes over how to pronounce A BUNCH of the contractions we use every day in conversational English.<\/p>\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span class=\"entry-tags\">Tagged With: <a href=\"https:\/\/rachelsenglish.com\/tag\/did-contractions\/\" rel=\"tag\">DID Contractions<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/rachelsenglish.com\/tag\/most-popular\/\" rel=\"tag\">Most Popular<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/rachelsenglish.com\/tag\/should-would-could\/\" rel=\"tag\">Should-Would-Could<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/rachelsenglish.com\/tag\/to-be-contractions\/\" rel=\"tag\">TO BE Contractions<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/rachelsenglish.com\/tag\/will-contractions\/\" rel=\"tag\">WILL Contractions<\/a><\/span> <strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">YouTube blocked?<\/span> <\/strong><a href=\"#video\">Click here to see the video.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"container-lazyload preview-lazyload container-youtube js-lazyload--not-loaded\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MzhjD-XrYjg\" class=\"lazy-load-youtube preview-lazyload preview-youtube\" data-video-title=\"How to Pronounce Contractions: American English Pronunciation\" title=\"Play video &quot;How to Pronounce Contractions: American English Pronunciation&quot;\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MzhjD-XrYjg<\/a><noscript>Video can&#8217;t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MzhjD-XrYjg\" title=\"How to Pronounce Contractions: American English Pronunciation\">How to Pronounce Contractions: American English Pronunciation (https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MzhjD-XrYjg)<\/a><\/noscript><\/div><\/p>\n<p><h2>Video Transcript:<\/h2><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span id=\"STtranscriptContent1\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">I&#8217;ve had some requests to go over the pronunciation of various contractions.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent2\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">So, let&#8217;s start with the &#8216;to be&#8217; contractions,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent3\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">as in I am, you are, we are.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent4\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">First, I&#8217;m. It&#8217;s one syllable,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent5\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">the &#8216;ai&#8217; as in &#8216;buy&#8217; diphthong and the M consonant sound.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent6\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">I&#8217;m here, I&#8217;m here. You are, you&#8217;re:<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent7\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">begins with the Y consonant sound,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent8\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">then the schwa, and finally the R consonant sound.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent9\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">You&#8217;re, you&#8217;re. You&#8217;re here! You&#8217;re welcome.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span id=\"STtranscriptContent10\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">He&#8217;s, she&#8217;s, and it&#8217;s.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent11\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Now the apostrophe S for the word &#8216;is&#8217; in these three contractions<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent12\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">is pronounced as a Z sound for he and she,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent13\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">and as an S sound for it&#8217;s.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent14\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">He&#8217;s, zzz, zzz, Z sound, she&#8217;s, zzz, zzz, Z sound,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent15\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">it&#8217;s, sss, S sound. The apostrophe S in he&#8217;s, she&#8217;s, and it&#8217;s,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent16\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">can also be shortening the word &#8216;has&#8217;, not just &#8216;is&#8217;.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent17\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">He has, he&#8217;s been here before.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent18\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">She has, she&#8217;s, she&#8217;s been here before.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent19\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">It has, it&#8217;s, it&#8217;s been here for a while.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent20\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">We&#8217;re begins with the W consonant sound.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent21\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">It then has the schwa\/R sound combination,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent22\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">just like the &#8216;er&#8217; as in &#8216;her&#8217; vowel sound: ww, er.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent23\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">So even though it would be written with two different symbol sounds,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent24\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">it&#8217;s just the one rr, rr, rr sound.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent25\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">We&#8217;re, we&#8217;re, we&#8217;re coming!<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent26\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">They&#8217;re: pronounced just like these two words their\/there.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent27\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Th, the voiced TH sound, th,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent28\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">the &#8216;eh&#8217; as in &#8216;bed&#8217;, the-er, er.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent29\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">The schwa\/R sound finishing off the word.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent30\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">They&#8217;re. They&#8217;re. They&#8217;re here!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span id=\"STtranscriptContent31\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Question words are often part of contractions as well.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent32\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">For example, how is. How&#8217;s, how&#8217;s.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent33\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">The S is pronounced as a Z sound, how&#8217;s.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent34\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">How&#8217;s it going? Why&#8217;s, why is.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent35\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Why&#8217;s, again it is pronounced like a Z sound.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent36\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">It&#8217;s pronounced just like this word wise.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent37\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Why&#8217;s, why&#8217;s it there? What is, what&#8217;s.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent38\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">So the apostrophe S is pronounced as an S, what&#8217;s.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent39\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Now, make sure you get the T for &#8216;what&#8217; in there.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent40\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">It&#8217;s a stop, what&#8217;s, not just an S sound. What&#8212;ss.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent41\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">So do move the tongue up to the roof of the mouth<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent42\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">to make that stop for the T.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent43\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">What&#8217;s, what&#8217;s. What&#8217;s it doing there?<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent44\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">The apostrophe S could also be the word does.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent45\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">What does, what&#8217;s. What&#8217;s it mean? When.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span id=\"STtranscriptContent46\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">When is becomes when&#8217;s, zz, zz.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent47\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Here the apostrophe S is pronounced as a Z.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent48\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">When&#8217;s, when&#8217;s, when is, when&#8217;s it over?<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent49\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">The apostrophe S can also mean does.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent50\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">When does, when&#8217;s, again, pronounced as a Z, when&#8217;s it end?<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent51\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">When does it end, when&#8217;s it end? The have contractions.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent52\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">These are written as apostrophe VE,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent53\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">and when the word before ends in a vowel or diphthong sound,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent54\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">it simply adds the V consonant sound<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent55\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">to the end of that syllable.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent56\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">I, I have, I&#8217;ve, I&#8217;ve, vvv.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent57\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">I&#8217;ve been waiting. You have, you&#8217;ve, you&#8217;ve.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent58\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Again, the word &#8216;you&#8217; pronounced just the same,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent59\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">only with, vv, a V sound at the end. You&#8217;ve.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent60\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">The Y consonant sound, &#8216;oo&#8217; as in &#8216;boo&#8217; vowel,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent61\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">and the V consonant sound. You&#8217;ve, you&#8217;ve been waiting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span id=\"STtranscriptContent62\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">We have, we&#8217;ve. The W consonant sound,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent63\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">the &#8216;ee&#8217; as in &#8216;she&#8217; vowel, and the V consonant.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent64\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">It&#8217;s pronounced just like this word, weave.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent65\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">We&#8217;ve, we&#8217;ve been waiting. They have, they&#8217;ve. They&#8217;ve.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent66\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">The voiced TH sound, the &#8216;ay&#8217; as in &#8216;say&#8217; diphthong,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent67\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">they, they, vv. And the V sound. They&#8217;ve. They&#8217;ve been waiting.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent68\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">The next set of words with the &#8216;have&#8217; contraction<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent69\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">all end in a consonant. So rather than just adding a V sound,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent70\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">it actually adds another, unaccented syllable:<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent71\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">the schwa sound followed by the V sound.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent72\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">For example, could have, could&#8217;ve, could&#8217;ve, ve, ve.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent73\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Separate, extra syllable at the end.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent74\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Could&#8217;ve. I wish I could&#8217;ve seen it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span id=\"STtranscriptContent75\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Should have, should&#8217;ve, should&#8217;ve, ve, ve.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent76\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">I should&#8217;ve known. Would have, would&#8217;ve.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent77\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Again, it&#8217;s the first syllable, woul-dve, that is stressed and, -dve:<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent78\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">low in pitch and volume. Would&#8217;ve.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent79\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">It would&#8217;ve been nice. Might have.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent80\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Now the T here is going to be pronounced as a flap T,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent81\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">so it will actually sound like a D: might&#8217;ve, might&#8217;ve.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent82\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Dve, dve, mai-dve, might&#8217;ve. I might&#8217;ve gone. The &#8216;will&#8217; contractions.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent83\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">All of these contractions have a dark L<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent84\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">that is added at the end. I&#8217;ve said before,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent85\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">the dark L has a vowel-like sound<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent86\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">that&#8217;s not written in IPA: uh, uh, uhl,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent89\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">before the tongue moves up into the final position.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span id=\"STtranscriptContent90\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">So let&#8217;s take example I, I&#8217;ll, I&#8211;&#8216;ll, uhl,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent91\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">that dark L sound on the end. I will, I&#8217;ll.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent92\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">I&#8217;ll be there soon. You will, you&#8217;ll. You&#8212;uhl.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent93\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Dark L at the end. You&#8217;ll.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent94\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">You&#8217;ll need to come quickly.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent95\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">With the he will and she will contractions,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent96\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">the ee vowel might relax a little<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent97\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">into the &#8216;ih&#8217; as in &#8216;sit&#8217; vowel.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent98\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">He will, he&#8217;ll, he&#8217;ll, he&#8217;ll be here soon.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent99\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">She will, she&#8217;ll, becomes more with the ih sound she&#8217;ll,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent100\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">she&#8217;ll, she&#8217;ll be here soon. It will. It&#8217;ll.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent101\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Notice the T here is pronounced as a flap T,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent102\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">the D sound. It&#8217;ll. It&#8217;ll be ok.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent103\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">With the we will contraction you might find, again,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent104\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">that the &#8216;ee&#8217; as in &#8216;she&#8217; vowel<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent105\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">relaxes into the &#8216;ih&#8217; as in &#8216;sit&#8217; vowel. We will,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent106\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">we&#8217;ll, we&#8217;ll. It sounds a lot like the word &#8216;will&#8217;.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent107\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">We&#8217;ll be there tomorrow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span id=\"STtranscriptContent108\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">They will, they&#8217;ll. They&#8217;ll. The TH, th, voiced sound,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent109\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">&#8216;ay&#8217; as in &#8216;say&#8217; diphthong, and the dark L sound.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent110\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Uhl, uhl, they&#8217;ll. They&#8217;ll be here soon.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent111\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">How will becomes how&#8217;ll, which sounds just like this word howl.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent112\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">How will, how&#8217;ll, how&#8217;ll you get there?<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent113\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Where will becomes where&#8217;ll, where&#8217;ll, where&#8212;&#8216;ll. Where&#8217;ll you be?<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent114\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">When will, when&#8217;ll. When&#8217;ll I see you again? What will.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent115\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Again, the T here will be pronounced as a D,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent116\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">it&#8217;s flapped. What&#8217;ll, what&#8217;ll. And you&#8217;ll notice that the contraction<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent117\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">adds a second unaccented syllable. What&#8217;ll. What&#8217;ll it be?<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent118\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">The words had and would can both be represented<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent119\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">by the apostrophe D. In the word I&#8217;d,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent120\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">it&#8217;s simply a D sound at the end<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent121\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">of the &#8216;ai&#8217; as in &#8216;buy&#8217; diphthong. I&#8217;d.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent122\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">I&#8217;d go if I could. You would, or you had,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent123\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">you&#8217;d, you&#8217;d. The Y consonant sound,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent124\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">the &#8216;oo&#8217; as in &#8216;boo&#8217;, and the D sound.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent125\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">You&#8217;d, all one syllable. You&#8217;d like it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span id=\"STtranscriptContent126\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">She had, or would, and he had, or would, again,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent127\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">the apostrophe D simply adds the D sound<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent128\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">at the end of the syllable. She&#8217;d, he&#8217;d.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent129\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">She&#8217;d been there before. He&#8217;d been there before. It.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent130\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Now, when you add the apostrophe D here, it&#8217;d, it&#8217;d,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent131\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">you change the T to a D sound,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent132\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">and the apostrophe D adds a syllable.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent133\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">It&#8217;s going to be the schwa and the D sound.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent134\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">It&#8217;d, it&#8217;d. So that &#8216;s the &#8216;ih&#8217; as in &#8216;sit&#8217; sound,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent135\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">ih, dud. The D &#8211; schwa &#8211; D sound.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent136\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">It&#8217;d, it&#8217;d, it&#8217;d be nice.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent137\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">The apostrophe D with the word &#8216;we&#8217;, again,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent138\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">is just simply the D sound at the end of that word,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent139\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">not adding a syllable. We&#8217;d. We&#8217;d.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent140\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">It&#8217;s pronounced just like this word &#8216;weed&#8217;.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent141\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">We&#8217;d better get going. The D with they, again,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent142\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">simply adds the D sound. They&#8217;d, they&#8217;d.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent143\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">They&#8217;d seen it twice before.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span id=\"STtranscriptContent144\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">The apostrophe D on the word how<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent145\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">again just adds the D sound.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent146\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">How&#8217;d, how&#8217;d, how&#8217;d. How&#8217;d it go?<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent147\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">The apostrophe D can also represent the word &#8216;did&#8217;<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent148\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">as in the following two examples.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent149\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Again with the word &#8216;where&#8217;, when you add the apostrophe D,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent150\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">you simply add the D sound at the end.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent151\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Where&#8217;d, where&#8217;d, where&#8217;d it go? Why did, why&#8217;d. Why&#8217;d.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent152\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Again just adds a D sound,<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent153\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">and it&#8217;s pronounced just like this word &#8216;wide&#8217;.<\/span> <span id=\"STtranscriptContent154\" class=\"STtranscriptContent\">Why&#8217;d. 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