Do you pronounce the T in exactly?

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I have noticed that alot of people pronounce exactly without a T sound. I have always pronounced it ig-zact-lee.

Have I been saying it wrong all this time?!

I’ve just said it out loud and kind of pronounce it, but not properly. Not really sure how to explain it 😂

No, you're right

Hm. I can’t tell.

I just forced it into a sentence with DH and I think I’d say the ‘t’.

I say ex-act-ly

A bit of a glottal stop?

Yes I pronounce it

I say ex-ack-lee. No t at all! I'm in the South.

I pronounce it ‘exackly’

No, I don’t because I am an Essex girl who speaks in the slovenly Essex style. You are correct, I am wrong!

Igg-zack-lee

(SE England)

Like someone else said though it's sort of there. Glottal stop.

I say egg zack ley
I'm from lancashire

Egg-zact-lay NE Scotland

I don’t….but I’ve always been a lazy speaker and a speech therapist never helped me no matter how many times my parents took me.

on a side note of a different word pronounced wrong, people from the next county over from me seem to pronounce register as “red-chester” instead of “redge -is-ter” …that one always wound me up when they said it at work 😂

Thanks everyone for responding. A bit of a mixture by all

I do pronounce the t but it’s a bit softer as I’m rolling over it a bit on the way the L sound

but ex-ack-ly , without any t-sound whatsoever, makes me think of a 2 year old trying to pronounce it.

Sometimes. If I'm using it to highlight a point I'll annunciate properly, bit in everyday conversation I think I probably rush over it.

I used to work with a man who said 'perzackly'. He couldn't hear the difference between what came out of his mouth and what came out of everybody else's.

Yes I do

Yep. Scotland. There may be more or less of an emphasis on the t depending on whether I'm saying it fast or slow, in a formal or informal context, or when I am relaxed versus surprised/panicked when I say it. Normally, I break the word into syllables like eggs-ACT-lee (slow, calm) or eggs-ZACK-tleh (excited, fast). But always a t.

Pronounce it exactly as it’s spelled-Scottish

I pronounce it (from Ireland).

Ex-act-lee NW

Anyone else now saying to themselves "Acrington Stanley? Who are they?" "Exaccccckkkkly" or am I the only old gimmer?

@Eminybob I posted the link up here somewhere! ^^