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How to pronounce “flapping”
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Pronunciation guide for flapping
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of flapping with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Bikes and Bloomers: Victorian Women Inventors...
to prevent a skirt from flapping and flying about,
- Definition summary
- that flaps or flap
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce flapping
Bikes and Bloomers: Victorian Women Inventors...
to prevent a skirt from flapping and flying about,
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “flapping”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- that flaps or flap
- [Noun]
- An instance where one flaps.
- (phonology) A phonological process found in many dialects of English, especially American English and Canadian English, by which intervocalic /t/ and /d/ surface as the alveolar flap [ɾ] before an unstressed syllable, so that words such as "metal" and "medal" are pronounced similarly or identically.
- (computing, telecommunications) The situation where a resource, a network destination, etc., is advertised as being available and then unavailable (or available by different routes) in rapid succession.
- (uncountable) The unlicensed racing of horses or greyhounds.
- [Verb]
- present participle and gerund of flap
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