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contraction of is not.
Pronunciation note
Isn't is often pronounced
[id-nt] in the South Midland and Southern U.S., with [d], a stop consonant, substituting for [z], a sibilant. This substitution results from an assimilatory process in which the tip of the tongue, in anticipation of the articulatory position for the following [n], touches the upper alveolar ridge. This same process gives [wuhd-nt] for wasn't and [bid-nis] for business. EXPANDThese pronunciations are heard from speakers on all social levels
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Isn't is often pronounced
[id-nt] in the South Midland and Southern U.S., with [d], a stop consonant, substituting for [z], a sibilant. This substitution results from an assimilatory process in which the tip of the tongue, in anticipation of the articulatory position for the following [n], touches the upper alveolar ridge. This same process gives [wuhd-nt] for wasn't and [bid-nis] for business. EXPANDThese pronunciations are heard from speakers on all social levelsCOLLAPSE
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is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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