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Greater permissiveness no doubt also encouraged the tendency to affricate the sequences /tj/
and /dj/ so that (at one time mainly only word-internally) they became so like the ch and j sounds
that they freely interchanged with them. The predominant forms of actually and gradually were never
acknowledged in the Daniel Jones dictionary to be so until after Jones's death (in 1967). It was only
latterly that eg /`ʧuːzdeɪ/ became widely recognised as fully permissible for Tuesday. LPD1 in
1990 labelled it as not "received". This stigma was only withdrawn in the 2008 LPD3. H. C. Wyld in
1921 at p.215 of his History of Modern Colloquial English had said that writing "chewsdy"
for Tuesday expressed "nothing different from the normal pronunciation" tho in his Universal
Dictionary of 1932 (which did not aim at very detailed information on variant pronunciations) he
showed the word only as pronounced /`tjuːzdɪ/.
Tuesday becomes
I
haven't finished
yet
he's due at six
d'you like it
did you like it
In those accents (for example American) where j is not dropped after t or d, this
does not of course happen. So Americans say
tune, due instead of tune, due