The Way We Speak
Tuesday 14th March
What a strange language English is!!
- ANSWER HERE
Do you want an apple?
In spoken English, ‘Do you’ contracts to ‘d’you’, which sounds the same as ‘Jew’. The ‘t’ in ‘want’ is silent, so we have ‘d’you wan’ which is (almost) idententical to ‘Jew on’.
Check out my pronunciation charts with audio here: Pronunciation Centre: Sounds of English