Reducing “months ago”

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two

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syllables so probably so probably so

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probably yeah yeah a uh 12 months ago so

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my dad did a very common reduction with

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the word months and he didn't make a t h

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sound but just a t sound so that goes

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together with the S to make a TS ending

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months months months that helps to make

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it faster it's a little bit of a more

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simple tongue movement rather than

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making the th lots of Americans do this

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months months 12 months ago 12 months

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ago 12 months ago you haven't been out

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yet this year it's a little hard to tell

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but I'm pretty sure I dropped the H in

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haven't we drop the H at the beginning

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of function words like have him her he a

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lot that helps us make it quicker it's

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less important and we can link it to the

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word before you haven't you haven't you

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haven't you haven't been out yet this

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year you haven't been out yet this year

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you haven't been out yet this year you

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haven't been out yet another stop te

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here and out why are we making all of

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these stop te's remember when a word

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ends in a vowel or diff thong and then a

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t