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PRONUNCIATION Features of fast speech (linking, assimilation) 

1 Consonants are sometimes inserted between two vowel sounds: 

two eggs sounds like two weggs

three eggs sounds like three yeggs

four eggs sounds like four reggs 

2 Consonants at the end of words (especially n, d and t sounds) change when the nextword also begins with a consonant: 

ten pounds sounds like tem pounds 

band practice sounds like bam practice 

Did you ... ? sounds like Dij je ... ? 

3 Sounds, usually consonants, sometimes disappear: 

Let's go sounds like Les go 

What's your name? sounds like Wos your name?