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liaisun · 4 months ago

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racquet vs racket - what's the difference?

in the books people play exy with 'racquets' — sometimes in posts and stories, people will spell it as 'racket' instead. they're the same thing in concept, but i'm curious if people make a distinction between the words out loud!

feel free to describe how u say them in the tags!!

for me: racquet - ra-KET [ɹæ'ket], word stress is on the 2nd syllable. (this stems from the british pronunciation of racquet, which i mentally associate with this spelling)

racket - RA-kit ['ɹækıt], word stress is on the 1st syllable. (said with the a sound in 'apple')

#it will also depend where ur from. for example im from the northeast of usa so we have high distinctions btwn a and æ in our dialect #see: Mary marry merry being said differently #not a speech survey just my own curiosity lmfao #aftg #all for the game #tfc #the foxhole court #also if ur not a native eng speaker that rocks and im still curious if any of this extends to you!!!!#luniaisun #also some ppl might have bias after reading mine but such is the case #edited the 1st's from ruh- to ra- because i was overreducing the sound LOL 😭 i dont say it with ruh

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