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English as a second language learners: what words were really hard for you to pronounce?
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"Subtle". I can not pronounce it in a way that it sounds different to "saddle".
Subtle is spelled weird, but rhymes with muddle. Do you also pronounce "mad" and "mud" the same way? With my accent they have the same first vowel sounds as saddle and subtle
Pretty sure subtle rhymes with shuttle.
Sure, but shuttle also rhymes with muddle in my East coast US accent, at least in normal conversation. I can force myself to slow down and really enunciate the T, but even then the difference is easy to miss.