How To Pronounce Trunk
trunk
UK
Phonemic
/trʌŋk/
Phonetic
[tr̥ʌ̃ŋk̚]
US
Phonemic
/trʌŋk/
In British English, trunk is pronounced /trʌŋk/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [tr̥ʌ̃ŋk̚]. In American English, it is pronounced /trʌŋk/.
Trunk has one syllable. British and American speakers say it the same way.
Slashes / / show the phonemic transcription, the sounds that change meaning. Square brackets [ ] show the phonetic transcription, with the finer detail of how the sounds are actually made.
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