Pete Smissen
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Ooh, right?
My lips come into a tight ring like I'm about to whistle.
So, here, instead of saying killed with a strong L, I will use that dark L and I'll use my lips to make the sound.
Killed.
Killed.
Killed.
So, my tongue doesn't do anything.
It just says the vowel sound I. Killed.
Right?
Killed.
And then the D at the end.
Killed.
Killed.
The other thing you'll notice is that with the D and then a T after it, it kind of merges into a single sound.
So, instead of I killed...
two birds where you have this D and then a T sound, they kind of merge together because it's the same position in your mouth.
When you make a T sound or a D sound, one of them is voiced, the D, one of them is unvoiced, but they're exactly the same movement, the same articulation of your tongue in your mouth.
So, here they merge together.
I killed two.
So, you'll sort of mute the D.