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Wanted to.
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'Wanted to'
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by far the most common pronunciation of this is,
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you drop the T in 'wanted'
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it becomes 'wanted',
that's very common.
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When it's followed by 'to',
you actually drop the whole word 'to'
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and just put the schwa on the end of the word --
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Wanted to.
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So we have the W consonant,
I use 'uh' as in butter,
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but you could use 'ah' and father, n.
Then we have no T,
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so we go right into the Ed ending,
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in this case it's two sounds not just one sound,
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it's IH as in sit, D.
The rule is if the sound before is T or D,
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ED becomes an extra syllable --
Ed, ed, ed.
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Even if we drop the T, we still do that.
So 'wanted to' and then the schwa --
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wanted to, wanted to,
wanted to swim,
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I wanted to swim.
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