And as such your ideolect is of little use when discussing how the language is normally pronounced.
My pronunciation is based on the pronunciation guides I find in dictionaries- Merriam-Webster, OED, and occasionally Dictionary.com if looking online. These are sources widely available and are considered to be fairly standard for common English usage.
That I might pronounce something actually as written in a standard source is not my problem. To my ear, many people are lax in their use of the language.
That those same guides are inaccurate and imprecise as far as
linguists are concerned is not my problem. Perhaps they shouldn't have been dumbed down for the rest of us.
The point is, I'm no linguist and never claimed to be. I pronounce things as depicted in dictionaries. Someone with superior knowledge- a linguist, for instance- can cite superior knowledge and more formal and rigorous proof to counter mine.
Someone made an assertion, which I countered with the best sources I had. That my sources might not be the best is quite possible.
The discussion at that point wasn't about my personal speech patterns, it was about standard (but apparently sub-best/non-linguist level) reference sources on the rules of language.
SUBSEQUENTLY,
not germane to the meat of the discussion, some asserted that I couldn't honestly be pronouncing the words I cited as counterexamples in the way my sources say they should be pronounced, and that my speech didn't contain certain stops. IOW, that on some level I was being intellectually dishonest for the purpose of making a point in this thread.
All such assertions I denied.
Besides, as you
surely know, how something is "normally" pronounced varies greatly from country to country, region to region, city to city, and in certain cases, neighborhood to neighborhood.
For example, "Praline" has several distinctly different pronunciations as you go from one end of the Southern USA to the other. In my home state of Louisiana, its "prah-leen." In Texas, where I live, its "pray-leen." And in certain areas East of the Mississippi, its "prah-reem"- how the "r" and "m" creep in, I have no idea.
Standard pronunciation is, in some way, a myth confined to books.
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