FREE VARIATION: Which is Correct? TO-MAY-TO or TO-MA-TO
In phonetics, free variation is an alternative pronunciation of a word (or of a phoneme in a word) that doesn’t affect the word’s meaning. Free variation is free in the sense that it doesn’t result in a different word. Usually there are reasons for it, perhaps the speaker’s dialect, or the emphasis the speaker wants […]
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