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129 - Expression: Off the Record

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How to Use the Expression Off the Record in Conversation

We'll use the phrase, this is off the record. We need to talk about the flap t in the middle of these last examples. Every time you have an unemphasized word that ends in tea and a vowel follows, you'll hear a flap tea. Are you wearing your bathing suit to dinner? Diditditdiidit it? Up it up. I really don't want my dad thinking i'm a pothead. All right. Hope it's very clear now how to use the expression off the record in conversation.

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