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The Pronunciation Studio Pogcast
Connected Speech: TO & THE
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Joseph Hudson
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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The function words TO and THE tend to change in connected speech if a vowel follows them. But increasingly young English speakers are not changing the words and using a glottal stop before a following vowel instead.
Could we even get an intrusive r in there? It's all in this episode of the pog.