Talk:reputation
Pronunciation[edit]
The article gives the pronunciation as /ˌɹɛpjʊˈteɪʃən/, but the audio (by an American speaker, I think) sounds to me like /ju/. Oxford Dictionaries gives /jʊ/ for its British edition and /jə/ for its American edition, but the audio for both sounds like /ju/. Merriam-Webster gives it as /yə/, and its audio actually does match. The OED gives /ju/. Based on my own experience as an American speaker, both /ju/ and /jə/ are common here, depending on the speaker and perhaps the speed of speech. Does that all sound right? And for British speakers, is /jʊ/ vs. /jə/ a phonemic distinction in this context, or just a phonetic difference between dialects in the realization of that sound? Vowels are hard. :-) Emufarmers (talk) 22:21, 7 June 2019 (UTC)