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The (thuh or thee) and a (uh or ay)

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It depends on the context I'm using it in and the word that is going to come after it.

Sometimes it just sounds wrong to use a certain word before another word, so I just use the other one instead.

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I only use "ay" when I'm emphasising; "It's. A. Big. [bleep]ing. Tank! Of course it'll survive a few rifle rounds!"

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BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD! SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!

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I thought you were supposed to use "thee" and "ay" before words with starting with vowels.

You say an before a vowel, but it's true for thee.

Matt: You want that eh? You want everything good for you. You want everything that's--falls off garbage can

Camera guy: Whoa, haha, are you okay dude?

Matt: You want anything funny that happens, don't you?

Camera guy: still laughing

Matt: You want the funny shit that happens here and there, you think it comes out of your [bleep]ing [wagon] pushes garbage can down, don't you? You think it's funny? It comes out of here! running towards Camera guy

Camera guy: runs away still laughing

Matt: You think the funny comes out of your mother[bleep]ing creativity? Comes out of Satan, mother[bleep]er! nn--ngh! pushes Camera guy down

Camera guy: Hoooholy [bleep]!

Matt: FUNNY ISN'T REAL! FUNNY ISN'T REAL!

I thought you were supposed to use "thee" and "ay" before words with starting with vowels.

You say an before a vowel, but it's true for thee.

Oh yeah, that's what I meant. *facepalm*

 

I was going to say it in a mean way but then I got all nice. It was weird.

Matt: You want that eh? You want everything good for you. You want everything that's--falls off garbage can

Camera guy: Whoa, haha, are you okay dude?

Matt: You want anything funny that happens, don't you?

Camera guy: still laughing

Matt: You want the funny shit that happens here and there, you think it comes out of your [bleep]ing [wagon] pushes garbage can down, don't you? You think it's funny? It comes out of here! running towards Camera guy

Camera guy: runs away still laughing

Matt: You think the funny comes out of your mother[bleep]ing creativity? Comes out of Satan, mother[bleep]er! nn--ngh! pushes Camera guy down

Camera guy: Hoooholy [bleep]!

Matt: FUNNY ISN'T REAL! FUNNY ISN'T REAL!

I use both depending on how the word is used in a sentence.

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From my understanding "the" is pronounced thee when it precedes a word beginning in a vowel or a syllable that sounds like a pure vowel and pronounced thuh in all other cases.

 

I don't believe there are any rules of pronunciation for "a", however.

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I usually use "thee" when the noun that follows begins with a vowel (thee apple, thee end). it sounds more right to me than "thuh apple, thuh end". As for a, the only time I use ay is when i need to stress something (usually the number of a thing) like if I say to my friends "our teacher gave us the answer to a test question today". "She gave you the answers to the questions??" "AY question".

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Apparently a lot of people say it. I own.

 

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