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I very rarely meet anyone who says “truck” - most people I know say “chruck” and when they say “truck” it sounds very forced. Same with other words that start with “tr”. They push the word through their teeth rather than putting their tongue on the roof of their mouth.

Enunciation is key.

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Babes, I think you might be saying it wrong. The s in straw is the same as the s in snake

You’re saying it wrong…

I think you might be the only one …

shounds like a shtupid shuggestion to me

There’s no SH sound in strawberry, you’re just pronouncing it wrong. (And that’s something I almost never say, as language is always changing).

See the pronunciation guide here for “straw”, and click on the speaker, you’ll hear the correct pronunciation.

This might be a cannabis thought…

You’ve got a lisp

I’ve never paid mind to it, but I think I pronounce it like you do. If I focus on not hitting the sh sound it sounds English, my normal accent is West-coast American.

Straw, strength, strip, all of those words I place a blending sh sound before the tr sound. If anything it might sound closest to ‘schrawberry’.

Interesting! I’ll pay attention to how others say it going forward.

That’s shilly. Jusht shtop.

Hmmm… nope.

Do you have this problem only with “strawberry” or also with “straw” alone? What about other words beginning with str-, like street or straight?

My first language doesn’t have syllable-initial st-, yet pronouncing any of these words is no problem for me at all in English.

I mean… If we’re talking about changing spelling due to pronunciation, there are other words much more fitting. Enough, women, ambition, etc. That’s how we get things like the Ghoti spelling of “Fish.” Or, for a Minecraft reference, ghoughpteighbteau instead of potato.

Language is weird, and it’s hard to map spelling to sound 1:1, especially over time

I prefer spelling it with an extra “Raw”