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So who here pronounces it GITar?


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I say it like: IPA: /???t??/, SAMPA: /gI"tAr/


and I know this because when they say it in the sound clip that sounds like how I say it.


 

 

The dude saying it in the American accent sounds EXACTLY like me - disturbingly so! If somebody played that for me and told me it was me i'd believe them.

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You are permitted to place the emphasis on the first syllable if you are an elderly African-American blues singer raised in the Mizzippi Delta.

 

Everybody else is advised to emphasise the second.

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You are permitted to place the emphasis on the first syllable if you are an elderly African-American blues singer raised in the Mizzippi Delta.


Everybody else is advised to emphasise the second.

 

 

I'd consider myself located in the heart of the deep South, and pronunciation seems to go both ways for a few different reasons, not the least of which is the staggering amount of old country, blues and bluegrass players around. It's kind of like the discrepancy between 'hybrid picking' (/snoot) and chicken pickin' (/yeehaw). Either is acceptable, but you only get to pick one.

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