When properly and carefully pronounced, accept and except have slightly different pronunciations of their initial vowels: accept is pronounced /ækˈsɛpt/, while except is pronounced /ɪkˈsɛpt/.
How do you pronounce the word except?
What is the meaning of except?
transitive verb. : to take or leave out from a number or a whole : exclude. intransitive verb. : to take exception : object. except.
Is the T silent in exactly?
When the T and D sounds come between two other consonant sounds, many Americans will drop them. But when we add the -ly ending, it now comes between two consonants. You’ll hear a lot of native speakers say ‘exactly‘, with no T sound. Exactly, exactly.
