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In casual American English, "Happy holidays" sounds like "HA-pee HAH-luh-dayz". It sticks to the citation pronunciation — no flaps, glottal stops, or dropped sounds in this one. The rhythm still matters: keep stressed words long and unstressed words short.
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Textbooks usually teach the citation form — every word pronounced fully, every consonant crisp, every vowel pure. Americans actually flap their Ts, drop function-word H's, link consonants forward into vowels, and reduce unstressed syllables to schwa. The respell on this page shows the casual form you'll hear in real conversations rather than the textbook version.
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