Beytter. Be an Australian, speak the real English.
I’m sorry, the train has left the station.
Maybe you and I could get together and… share some labial consonants?
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(…Be glad thət I went with that instead of dipthongs.)
What kind of question is this.
It’s an interrogative statement, used to test knowledge. But that’s not important now.
[beɪdʌ]
Nowai. You could stretch the /t/ and turn it into an /ɾ/, but a /d/ is completely out of the question. I humbly stand by my previous post here.
Its bet-a according to the laws of English pronunciation, and thats the best reference we have. Not that I’d ever pronounce it that way, bay-ta is the only acceptable way.
Yes, perhaps. But the question wasn’t “How is this word pronounced based on the laws of the English language?”
It was “How do YOU pronounce this word,” and I never pronounce the /t/ phoneme when I say “beta”.
Oh, well, in that case, you’re right 
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Come to think of it, they are fairly close in American pronunciation at least. I’ve heard people “smooth” their t’s into d’s.
Hm, yeah, it’s likely, since pronouncing a d allegedly involves less effort than a t. The less effort, the better, for some people at least…
No, it’s because the phoneme directly before it is voiced, so that voiced phoneme is carried over, even if English technically dictates it shouldn’t.
Works for me.
Love the Airplane reference.