DROPPED SYLLABLES

If you look up the word "vegetable" it is technically a 4-syllable word, but because the second syllable is just a reduced vowel on its own (ə), we don't pronounce it! Instead, it is pronounced like a 3-syllable word:

/ˈvedʒ.tə.bəl/ (with the stress on the first syllable)

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So, this post made me thing of an incident that happened about 20 years ago where a non-native speaker corrected my pronunciation of ‘often’. According to her, her francophone English instructor had taught her the ‘t’ is silent, and where I’m from we hit the ‘t’ hard. I thought it was very French to co…