Standard American pronunciation on "happy" Do all the Americans pronounce "happy" actually as \ ˈhabē \ instead of \ ˈhapē \? Or, some of the Americans still say \ ˈhapē \ like Brits? It seems that the sound is changed from "p" to "b". The online dictionary Merriam-Webster posts \ ˈhapē \. But, one clicks on the icon of pronunciation, one would hear it pronounce \ ˈhabē \. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/happy It's the same from the Cambridge dictionary online on American pronunciation. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english-chinese-traditional/happy. In particular, a professor who teaches phonetics in university pronounces \ ˈhabē \. Please check out the link at 23:07 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlaSveXhsHE