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The word 'between'.
This is a preposition,
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usually unstressed in a sentence.
For example, I can't decide between
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long hair or a pixie cut.
Between, between, between -
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flat, unstressed.
This is a two-
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syllable word, but since it's unstressed,
both syllables can feel flat and fast.
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Don't think of there even being
a vowel in that first syllable,
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just a very quick B sound.
Buh-, be-, b-,
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between, between, between.
TW cluster, we will have some
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lip rounding for that.
Between, between.
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