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My favorite the past few years? A common word in novels: Gasps.
It takes many takes some days to get it to not sound like there's a gargling snake loose in the studio.
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"The first step" is one that, for me, always requires a few attempts to flow naturally, without sounding deliberately slowed.
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ConnieTerwilliger
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Mike, I usually don't say all the letters in that combo - firstep is what I'll say. It depends on the context  of course - but most scripts these days are not so formal that the first "t" has to be articulated.
But a word like "context" in the plural has to have all those sounds.
Or the word "texts" like in "How many texts did you get?" Whew, that's a doozy. Again though the chances are it is a real casual kind of delivery and everyone will know what you mean from the context (which is easy to say because there ain't no damn s on the end of it).
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Wasps' nests.
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Mike Harrison
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| ConnieTerwilliger wrote: | | Mike, I usually don't say all the letters in that combo - firstep is what I'll say. |
Sometimes I try too hard and beat myself up. I'll try to convince my brain to go with your suggested streamlined version.
Oh, Connie: your voice keeps me company when I do grocery shopping at my local Stop & Shop: "Deli kiosk order number... is ready for pickup at your convenience. Thank you!" Then it repeats, of course. Last week, prior to a snowstorm when people had jammed the store, those deli kiosk prompts were running continually. The voice I do NOT enjoy hearing at this store says: "Please wait for an attendant" at their hugely deficient self-checkout terminals.
Deirdre: "wasps' nests." Good one.
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I'm in the booth right now doing an English language training course and I'm doing some science and this lovely little tongue twister popped up.
Twine taut...
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Twine taut... |
...that could go south very quickly...
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ConnieTerwilliger
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Yes, indeed - and it was repeated several times - they really wanted to keep that twine taut...
Mike - don't you wish that we got paid every time those messages play. I'd buy that house in Australia (Matt Cowlrick's parents place) and fly everyone in for a big party!
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| Mike Harrison wrote: | | at my local Stop & Shop: "Deli kiosk order number... is ready for pickup at your convenience. |
Whenever that happens, I always say, sotto voce so nearby shoppers don't necessarily hear me, "Thank you, Connie." And I often find myself at Stop & Shop between 8:30 and 9 PM so I get the entire litany of "Due to Connecticut law, the sale of alcoholic beverages is prohibited after 9 PM. You now have __ minutes to purchase beer and remove it from the store." That makes up for the times I go to Lowe's and nobody needs "assistance in the lumber cutting area." 
By the way, my killer combinations aren't so much the XTS and the like, although those can cause you to over-enunciate like Captain Sisko of Deep Space Nine. The ones that get me are vowel-vowel or vowel-soft-consonant, especially where they come in rapid succession like the dreaded phone prefix, "888."
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... and it's always in a tag - so it's always super-fast.
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Mike Harrison
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Connie: YES!
| Lee Gordon wrote: | | Whenever that happens, I always say, sotto voce so nearby shoppers don't necessarily hear me, "Thank you, Connie." |
Oh, I say it out loud. It helps clear the aisles and reduce the wait at the self-checkout terminals. Shopping is so much easier that way. 
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GRASPED!
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| Mike Harrison wrote: | | "The first step" is one that, for me, always requires a few attempts to flow naturally, without sounding deliberately slowed. |
AArrggghhh! I have a series of about a dozen e-learning modules to read that are a great job in every way (easygoing client, prompt payer, etc) except that the following phrases appear all the time:
"The first step"
and then of course....
"The next step"
and inevitably...
"and the last step"
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Had a great one today that had me saying it so many times, the sentence lost meaning.
"Whether the"
*** Keep in mind this was in a British accent, so a non-rhotic "R" on "Whether" *** (I just tried it in an American accent and it's fine  so give it a go in British!) |
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