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Do native English speakers pronouce b as m?

English Language & Usage Asked on December 2, 2020

I very often study English and try to improve my listening skill with some educational materials. And I just encountered a sentence, "Once he made an alarm clock for cats – you know, to wake them up from their naps." However, the speaker speaks the last part of this sentence as follows, "tweiktheba^(p)from". That sounded very weird to me, since I thought she should’ve probably pronounced like "tweikthema^(p)from" in place of "ba". So I once sounded exactly like her and spoke it to the Google Translate app, and, surprisingly, it worked and translate b to m.

ex. I will wake them up from their naps.

aiwoweiktheba^from

So my question is that do native English speakers sometimes pronounce b as m?

One Answer

it’s possible that the speakers words just slurred together. There are instances where a b is silent when paired with an m like in the words “thumb” or “lamb” but in the example you provided it should just be pronounced with an m.

Answered by Ryan on December 2, 2020

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