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The Daily Insight

How to pronounce parallelogram

Author

Sarah Richards

Published Feb 21, 2026

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Is the T silent in exactly?

When the T and D sounds come between two other consonant sounds, many Americans will drop them. But when we add the -ly ending, it now comes between two consonants. You’ll hear a lot of native speakers say ‘exactly‘, with no T sound. Exactly, exactly.