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shounds like a shtupid shuggestion to me
now you sound like Sylvester the cat lol
Babes, I think you might be saying it wrong. The s in straw is the same as the s in snake
You've got a lisp
There's no SH sound in strawberry, you're just pronouncing it wrong. (And that's something I almost never say, as language is always changing).
That's shilly. Jusht shtop.
Sean Connery? I thought you were dead!
You're saying it wrong...
Hmmm... nope.
This might be a cannabis thought...
Good point. I'm gonna get high and see if I pronounce it differently.
We want Homerun Homer.
I think this way of speaking developed in the USA over the last 30 years or so.
I saw a video about that a few months ago how people seem to put the sh sound into more and more places. Like they don't say stormtrooper, they say shtormshrooper. Can't find it anymore and don't remember the channel.
To me it sounds weird. We learned this as a distinct difference to German that it's straw and not shtraw, like it would be pronounced in German.
See, that one I don't do. Storm is fine. It's anything with str.
Shtraight. Shtrip.
Looks to me like you're mixing the English r sound into the st sound.
Now that's intriguing, I've never encountered this.
Hope you can find the video - I'll go look.
in-chri-ging
Found the video! https://youtu.be/F2X1pKEHIYw
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Ah ha! I'm not crazy! Thank you. That was a great video.
I prefer spelling it with an extra "Raw"
Do you have this problem only with "strawberry" or also with "straw" alone? What about other words beginning with str-, like street or straight?
My first language doesn't have syllable-initial st-, yet pronouncing any of these words is no problem for me at all in English.
Shtraw as well. And sthrength. But I can pronounce stuck, stoop, etc just fine. It's "str" that's the issue.
Either speech impediment or German.
I've worked with a lot of Germans. I'm convinced those are the same thing.
may I ask what your first language is?
New Jersey
I very rarely meet anyone who says "truck" - most people I know say "chruck" and when they say "truck" it sounds very forced. Same with other words that start with "tr". They push the word through their teeth rather than putting their tongue on the roof of their mouth.
Enunciation is key.
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Yes! It's exactly that. A lazy T
I've never paid mind to it, but I think I pronounce it like you do. If I focus on not hitting the sh sound it sounds English, my normal accent is West-coast American.
Straw, strength, strip, all of those words I place a blending sh sound before the tr sound. If anything it might sound closest to 'schrawberry'.
Interesting! I'll pay attention to how others say it going forward.
I just poked around YouTube and it seems pretty common. This short has two guys saying it the way I do: https://youtube.com/shorts/hbU9NOvOUik
I mean... If we're talking about changing spelling due to pronunciation, there are other words much more fitting. Enough, women, ambition, etc. That's how we get things like the Ghoti spelling of "Fish." Or, for a Minecraft reference, ghoughpteighbteau instead of potato.
Language is weird, and it's hard to map spelling to sound 1:1, especially over time