Ryota
I want to ask whether "AND" is sometimes not pronounced. At 0:12 in the song Tonight tonight by Hot Chelle Rae, he sings a line "my girlfriend went and cheated on me" I couldn't almost hear "AND" after the line 'my girl went'
17 mei 2025 00:58
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I can hear it in the song, but he doesn't clearly pronounce the ending constant so it sounds like "an" instead of "and" "an my girlfriend went and cheated on me"
6 uur geleden
"wenッ- ン - cheated". Sounds like "wen "chisai tsu", "n" , "cheated"
7 uur geleden
And therefore, if the weak form of "and" is simply "n" -- as it very often is -- then this lonely "n" sound would be assimilated to the "n" sound at the end of "went" (the T is not typically released after N at the ends of words). Thus "went and cheated" would sound like "wen'ncheated"
10 uur geleden
Yes, "and" can be very weakly, almost imperceptibly, pronounced. It is one of a set of words called function words. Function words include conjunctions, articles, pronouns, prepositions, adverbial particles, etc. these words always have a strong pronunciation and also one or more weak pronunciations. A good dictionary, such as Cambridge, will show you both (go to Cambridge's online dictionary and look at the entry for "and"). Weak pronunciations are much more common than strong. I almost never say "and" with a strong pronunciation. This is true in every dialect of English, and it is not informal.
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