US Street English is spoken at this YouTube site, "English for Everyone," designed to show tonality, but also shows typical US English street talk pronunciation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpplGqZ3OSY
I compare the truespel converter (dictionary accent) for these 10 sentences to my phonetic interpretation of the street talk here and examine the differences. See listed differences below. Many are pronunciation shortcuts between words.
Results show 31 phoneme differences in the 79 words of 10 sentences with many involving the ~t sound, either glottalized or dropped.
See truespel phonetics differences counted below for the 10 sentences spoken in the above link compared in truespel between dictionary and street talk. At the bottom is a phoneme listing.
Hi Mike. Mister and Misses Gonzalez are moving in next weekend.
Dict 1 Hie Miek. Mister and Misiz Gaanzzaalez aar mueveeng in nekst weekend.
Street 1 Hie Miek. Mister en Misiz Gaanzzaalis aa mueveeng in neks weeken.
diffs 1 2 3 4 5 6
Great. What do you want me to do?
Dict 2 Graet. Wut due yue waant mee tue due?
Street 2 Grae‘. Wu due yue waan’ mee tu due?
7 8 9
I want you to paint the house.
Dict 3 Ie waant yue tue paent thu hous.
Street 3 Ie waan’ yue du paen’ thu hous.
10 1112 13
When do you want me to paint the house?
Dict 4 Wen due yue waant mee tue paent thu houz?
Street 4 Wen due yue waan’ mee tu paen’ thu hous?
14 15 16
I want you to paint the house tomorrow.
Dict 5 Ie waant yue tue paent thu hous tummaaroe
Street 5 Ie waan chu tu paen’ thu hous tummaaroe
17 18 19 20 21
Do you know a good handyman?
Dict 6 Due yue noe u good handeeman?
Street 6 Due yue noe u good handeeman?
My friend is good at fixing things.
Dict 7 Mie frend iz good at fikseeng thheengz.
Street 7 Mie frend iz good a’ fikseeng thheengz.
22
Does he want to make some extra money?
Dict 8 Duz hee waant tue maek sum ekstru munee?
Street 8 Duz hee waanu maek sum ekstru munee?
23 24
Sure. I can ask him.
Dict 9 Sher. Ie ken ask him.
Street 9 Sher. Ie kin ask im.
25 26
I want him to fix the toilet and the sink.
Dict 10 Ie waant him tue fiks thu toilit and thu seenk.
Street 10 Ie waan im tu fiks thu toilit en thu seenk.
27 28 29 30 31
Phoneme Counts
Using my Auto-Count truespel spreadsheet shows that:
1 Dictionary (+) had far more ~t sounds (15)
2 Street (-) had far more ~u sounds (8)
3 Street had fewer sounds overall (19)
| Dict - Street | Dict-Street | |||
| Phonemes | Dictionary | Street Talk | difference | absolute value |
| Totals = | 248 | 229 | 19 | 49 (20%) |
| ~t | 24 | 9 | 15 | 15 |
| ~u | 11 | 19 | -8 | 8 |
| ~ue | 16 | 9 | 7 | 7 |
| ~a | 7 | 4 | 3 | 3 |
| ~i | 10 | 13 | -3 | 3 |
| ~d | 12 | 10 | 2 | 2 |
| ~h | 9 | 7 | 2 | 2 |
| ~s | 11 | 13 | -2 | 2 |
| ~z | 6 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| ~ch | 0 | 1 | -1 | 1 |
| ~r | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| ~y | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| ~ie | 7 | 6 | 1 | 1 |
| ~e | 7 | 8 | -1 | 1 |
| ~mm | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| ~zz | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| ~sh | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| ~th | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| ~thh | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| ~zh | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| ~b | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| ~f | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| ~g | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| ~j | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| ~k | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| ~l | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| ~m | 13 | 13 | 0 | 0 |
| ~n | 26 | 26 | 0 | 0 |
| ~p | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| ~v | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| ~w | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| ~aa | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| ~ae | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| ~au | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| ~air | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| ~ee | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| ~er | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| ~oo | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| ~oe | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| ~oi | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| ~ou | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| ~or | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals = | 248 | 229 | 19 | 49 |