# How do you pronounce "to"?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 15, 2009, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-to/481485 "2009-01-15T20:48:32Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-to/481485/21 "2009-01-16T03:07:51Z")

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And sometimes the /t/ is just absorbed (e.g., “wanna”).

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**Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-to/481485/22 "2009-01-16T03:47:58Z")

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> [@Indistinguishable](#):
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> And sometimes the /t/ is just absorbed (e.g., “wanna”).

In the last few years, I’ve heard a lot of things like “gedduh” (“get to”), I think exclusively from girls.

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**Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-to/481485/23 "2009-01-16T03:57:56Z")

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Having a Michigan accent, I tend to slur my words. So “going to” comes out “goin’a” and “I’m going to go to Meijer” comes out “I’munnagodaMeijers.”

But “too” tends to come out right.

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**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-to/481485/24 "2009-01-16T04:31:19Z")

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> [@Arglefraster](#):
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> If “to” is immediately followed by “the”, I say it “to” with a long o sound.

Long O sound? FTR, I have never heard anyone pronounce “to” with a long “O” sound. Wouldn’t the a long O sound like “toe” (the digits on your feet) or tow (like what you might do to a trailer)?

I pronounce “to” with a long “U” sound like “tube”. I don’t think i differentiate between “to” “two” and 'too".

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