American English numbers are not always pronounced the way they are written.
For example, when Americans say the numbers thirty, forty ,fifty and so on…. the t in those words is pronounced more like a d. This sound is called the flap or the tapped t and the IPA symbol is /ɾ/.
When they say the number twenty, many Americans omit the sound of the t.
Americans pronounce phone numbers following a familiar pattern that sounds like this:
808-123-6589
eighdOEIGHT-onetwoTHREE-sixfiveeightNIne
Watch Julia Roberts pronouncing American English numbers in this one minute video.
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