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pronunciation - How Do You Pronounce "Tuesday"?


My friends have a variety of ways of pronouncing "Tuesday":



  • Tooos-day

  • Tyu-sday

  • Choose-day


Which one is considered correct?



Answer



There are really only two phonemic variants here:



  1. First syllable is /tu:/

  2. First syllable is /tju:/


The variation between these two forms is an instance of the widespread idiosyncratic insertion of /j/ before /u:/ in many English dialects. Another common word with this variation is tune, which is pronounced both as /tu:n/ and /tju:n/. Generally both variants are accepted as correct, though your dialect will vary in which one it prefers.


The variant pronunciation with "choose-day" is a matter of dialects in which the cluster /tj/ is regularly pronounced as [tʃ] ("ch"). This is another common dialectical feature which is generally accepted as correct in the regions where it occurs. When you have someone who begins "Tuesday" with /tju:/ and produces /tj/ as [tʃ], you'll hear them pronounce the word with [tʃu:] as the first syllable.


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