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RP generally made a distinction between words like prince and prints, Thomson and Thompson. Today many speakers pronounce such pairs the same, as a result of an ‘epenthetic’ plosive introduced into words like prince and Thomson.
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Lindsey, G. (2019). Chapter 17 Epen-t-thesis. In: English After RP. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04357-5_18
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