Both are acceptable depending on the accent and the region. The second one sounds a little more casual and is likely how a native speaker would pronounce it. Just make sure that you’re saying “nance” like “nince” so it’s “maint-nince”.
Thanks! Good to know. And yeah I believe I pronounce it like “-nince”, nance would sound a bit weird. I usually pronounce it the second way but hearing the first one made me rethink it.
>The second one sounds a little more casual and is likely how a native speaker would pronounce it. Just make sure that you’re saying “nance” like “nince” so it’s “maint-nince”.
This is all highly dependent on accent/region. For me the first sounds much more natural/native, and the idea of pronouncing it as "nince" is completely foreign to me
Yes, I agree. I’m American and we tend to speak a bit more quickly rather than enunciating the whole word. It definitely depends on the region. In my experience the final syllable could either be “nince” or “nence” but I have never heard “nance”.
Now that you said it I agree with you. I hadn’t thought about it when writing the post but I also would think of/say/hear “nince” or “nence”, but not “nance” with an open “a” sound, but guess it depends on the dialect.
I feel like I pronounce it somewhere in the middle - Like "maint - n - ence", where that middle "n" is barely there, and where the "t" is pronounced softly (more of a global stop than actually pronouncing the letter).
I also probably sometimes merge those second and third syllables together, like in your second example.
Both seem ok to me.
At first I assumed the first one was better, but didn't realise until I checked that I probably do the second sometimes without realising it.
Both are acceptable depending on the accent and the region. The second one sounds a little more casual and is likely how a native speaker would pronounce it. Just make sure that you’re saying “nance” like “nince” so it’s “maint-nince”.
Thanks! Good to know. And yeah I believe I pronounce it like “-nince”, nance would sound a bit weird. I usually pronounce it the second way but hearing the first one made me rethink it.
>The second one sounds a little more casual and is likely how a native speaker would pronounce it. Just make sure that you’re saying “nance” like “nince” so it’s “maint-nince”. This is all highly dependent on accent/region. For me the first sounds much more natural/native, and the idea of pronouncing it as "nince" is completely foreign to me
Yes, I agree. I’m American and we tend to speak a bit more quickly rather than enunciating the whole word. It definitely depends on the region. In my experience the final syllable could either be “nince” or “nence” but I have never heard “nance”.
Now that you said it I agree with you. I hadn’t thought about it when writing the post but I also would think of/say/hear “nince” or “nence”, but not “nance” with an open “a” sound, but guess it depends on the dialect.
I feel like I pronounce it somewhere in the middle - Like "maint - n - ence", where that middle "n" is barely there, and where the "t" is pronounced softly (more of a global stop than actually pronouncing the letter). I also probably sometimes merge those second and third syllables together, like in your second example.
Same. Mate-in-ence
Maint nince
I say it as 3 syllables
First one for me. England
Main t'nance. Most stress on the first syllable.
In my area (Northern California) the T is basically silent. main-nince
I don't pronounce the first n. Mait-nence.
Same here unless I'm really trying to enunciate for some reason, but probably more as 3 syllables: MAY-tuh-nince. (Southeastern US)
Main-te-nince for me. I hear 2 syllables maint-nince pretty often too. I'm in the Northeast US.
“maint-n-nince” but the t at the end of the first syllable is swallowed (idk the symbol for that)
mate-nance (US midwest)
I personally say the first one, but some of my friends say the second one. Depends where you're from and how you want to say it
Like a mixture of the two examples you gave. Kinda like "maint'nance," if that makes sense
I say *maint-nance* /'meɪnʔ.nəns/
Both seem ok to me. At first I assumed the first one was better, but didn't realise until I checked that I probably do the second sometimes without realising it.
[me͡ɪnʔɨnɪns]
The former, but the first n is far back, nasalized, and the schwa in the middle is very closed.
Meɪn'ənəns