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HelpRe: How do you pronounce "Tr" and "Dr"? Adrian, Tristan, Patricia, etc?
in reply to a message by clevelandkentevans
52, I was 14 in California 1985
My answer was, certainly I say dr and tr. My mouth does something different if I make jr and chr. How can people even think that they are saying that. I haven't heard it.
But then I thought about it (too hard) and realize that lately, I sometimes do make a slight sh in the midst of tr, or the d in the dr sound is made farther forward than it really should be. Feels like I have a lazy tongue. Like if I say "Patrick" I can hear Pat-(sh)rick ... not quite patch. My son's name has a dr and I say it as dr, for sure - and I think my daughter (17) says it as jr.
I did understand Jream immediately, but kinda doubted I was right at first, because it seemed so novel, and not quite enough the same as Dream, for someone to have invented it. I never would have thought of dr and jr as being interchangeable, either.
- mirfak
My answer was, certainly I say dr and tr. My mouth does something different if I make jr and chr. How can people even think that they are saying that. I haven't heard it.
But then I thought about it (too hard) and realize that lately, I sometimes do make a slight sh in the midst of tr, or the d in the dr sound is made farther forward than it really should be. Feels like I have a lazy tongue. Like if I say "Patrick" I can hear Pat-(sh)rick ... not quite patch. My son's name has a dr and I say it as dr, for sure - and I think my daughter (17) says it as jr.
I did understand Jream immediately, but kinda doubted I was right at first, because it seemed so novel, and not quite enough the same as Dream, for someone to have invented it. I never would have thought of dr and jr as being interchangeable, either.
- mirfak
This message was edited 12/13/2023, 9:30 AM
