NamelessKing
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Do "sorted" and "sort it" sound the same?
Not to me, nor to any British English speakers I know.
I'm surprised it's possible in American English.
I like that idiom. Gonna add it to my list.Not to my BrE ears- the endings are /d/ and /t/. Close, but no cigar.
Maybe, when they occur at the end of a sentence. I think most Americans pronounce the final consonants identically when they fall in the middle of a sentence and the next word begins with a vowel sound. In fact, it would sound weird if an American used a /t/ in sort it out.In Standard American, they sound different. In particular, one ends with a /t/ sound, and the other ends with a /d/ sound.
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