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Normally, I'd just dismiss this as ChatGPT being trained not to disagree, but as a non-native speaker this has me doubting myself: Is prompt really pronounced rompt?

It feels like it can't possible be true, but on the other hand, I'm probably due for having my confidence in my English completely shattered again by learning another weird word's real pronunciation, so maybe this is it.

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1. akavi ◴[14 Nov 24 19:33 UTC] No.42140196{3}[source]▶

>>42138312 #

I'm a native english speaker, and prompt is pronounced "promt" ( /prɒmt/ in my roughly General American accent). Ie, there is a silent "p", but it's the second one, not the first.

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2. okasaki ◴[14 Nov 24 21:58 UTC] No.42141660[source]▶

>>42140196 (TP) #

There's no silent p in prompt. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/prompt

3. prewett ◴[14 Nov 24 23:34 UTC] No.42142450[source]▶

>>42140196 (TP) #

In my Ohio dialect (which is supposedly standard), I pronounce both p's, but the second one is only half-pronounced. If I pronounce it quickly, there isn't the slight puff of air between the two, so the sound has the beginning sound as a first bit of 'p' and the ending sound of the last part of 't'. This sounds very similar to /promt/, but is not actually the same.

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