Date:  Tue, 29 Jul 1997 12:39:27 PDT
From:  barbara harris <GRADMA[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UVVM.UVIC.CA>
Subject: Re: SME t + glide (was canadian choon for tune)

Re <chewsdi> vs /tjuzdi/: If you are (as I am) one of the CE speakers who
uses the t+glide regularly (tune, Tuesday, student, stew, etc. - and the
voiced version as well, eg due/dew vs do), then the difference is probably
registral (i.e. rapid/casual speech vs more formal speech). For instance,
I'd say to a class, "The next quiz will be on /tyuzdi/," but leaving the
office on Friday afternoon, I'll likely say, "See ya <chewsdi>" (it's against
my principles to come in on a Monday). Of course, there are a lot of CE
speakers who would never use either of these versions, but stick to the plain
/t/ and /d/. And then there's a sort of half-way pronunciation that I'm not
even going to attempt to represent here.