"Dinner" in American English is a variable-meaning word - some use it as in British English (this is likely common in New England, especially around Boston); some use it to refer to the evening meal, and some use it to refer to whichever meal is the largest/heaviest of the day.
There's also an implication that 'dinner' is a hot meal - if I have too much to do and not enough time to do it in, I'll have sandwiches for lunch (mid-day) and supper (evening), but neither is 'dinner'.
The dinner-meaning-lunch is primarily used in the midlands and north of the UK, with the word "tea" for dinner. Not at all confusing: breakfast-dinner-tea in the north is breakfast-lunch-dinner in the south.
> un oiseau, un enfant, une chèvre le bleu du ciel, un beau sourire du bout des lèvres un crocodile, une vache, du soleil et ce soir je m'endors au pays des merveilles un oiseau, un crayon, une chèvre le bleu du ciel, un peu de sucre un peu de sel un crocodile, quelques fleurs, une abeille et ce soir je m'endors au pays des merveilles
For future reference.
Man, even your words for "future reference" are French.
Can't you ever think of anything original. (That isn't twerking.)
Then again, I'm noticing even your word for "original" is not original.
@DecapitatedSoul That's not very common across GenAmE. some specific local accent do it, like the classic city accents (think of Sylvester Stallone as Rocky (Philadelphia) or John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever (Brooklyn)) which have really fallen away (it was special in the 70's even then).
Which is to say, it is not at all what most people do, at least native English speakers.
How do you pronounce sixth time?
For example: Lionel Messi has won the Ballon d'Or for the sixth time.
It's quite difficult to pronounce the /ksθ t/.
Do you skip any sound in /ksθ/ /t/? If so, which one do you skip?
The /sɪk/ part is easy but after that, the /sθ/ and then the /t/ right after ...
Actors and TV announcers spend lots of time trying to enunciate every sound exactly, when in reality no one bothers. It's not wrong to elide. That's what speaking does.
The answer to my question didn't really answer my question but I accepted it because the answerer had spent his time on collecting information and then putting them together
A classic example that most people deny is words like 'masts' 'wasps', 'casks'. Everybody thinks they pronounce the stop between the s's (and sometimes they do in very articulate circumstances), but more often the stop is elided entirely and maybe the 's' sounds a tiny bit longer.
Nonnative speakers usually come across as educated (well, they usually are) but also because they are taught a formal version rather than how people speak everyday.
Why all this supper/dinner stuff; a large noon meal is eaten by people who have heavy physical labor to do in the afternoon. The evening meal is late in countries where it’s so hot you need to lie down until the sun sets.
By watching English videos, movies, listening to podcasts, learning new words/ expressions/ idioms daily, reading books (reading gets me bored now) etc...
@Mitch SmokeDetector 7:10 [ SmokeDetector | MS ] Few unique characters in answer, no whitespace in answer, potentially bad keyword in answer, repeating characters in answer (264): How to find formal way to say informal sentence in TV shows? by user383228 on english.SE
Anyway, time for me to meet my friends, who may or may not be Covid-19 positive, for walk ‘n talk. The way to avoid the trackers is to have a decent Faraday pouch for your cell phone. No need to add quarantine to the rest of the trials and tribulations.
How do you pronounce sixth time?
For example: Lionel Messi has won the Ballon d'Or for the sixth time.
It's quite difficult to pronounce the /ksθ t/.
Do you skip any sound in /ksθ/ /t/? If so, which one do you skip?
The /sɪk/ part is easy but after that, the /sθ/ and then the /t/ right after ...
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