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

Question

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

Answer

Hi! I'm American, and I've only ever heard happy pronounced as "hapē". The "p" sound might not be pronounced as strongly as in Britain, but it is still a "p" sound. :)

Answer

I think the dialect can vary depending on where someone is from. Most Americans would say haPE.

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