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Old November 01, 2010, 01:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Rusty View Post
... Listen carefully to yourself as you say, 'This cheddar is better,' over and over. The double consonants should sound exactly alike. ...
Really? One's voiced and the other isn't, unless you have a merger.

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... Add the initial consonant 'p', with no plosive sound ...
What's left? That consonant is an unvoiced bilabial plosive.
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