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Today, we start with number
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71, and that's the word "THAN".
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Fully pronounced, we have voiced TH,
AA as in BAT,
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followed by N consonant,
than, than.
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When AA is followed by N,
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we relax the
back of the tongue and change the sound.
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Tha-, tha-, than, than.
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So it's not AA,
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than, than,
but than,
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AA-UH,
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there's an extra sound in there from relaxing
the back of the tongue, sort of like an UH vowel.
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Than,
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than.
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But we don't need to focus too much on
the full pronunciation of this word,
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since it is a word that reduces.
Remember, when a word reduces,
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that's called a reduction, and that's
when we change or drop a sound.
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