How to pronounce trait

A comment in a silly MetaFilter thread informed me that the word trait was traditionally pronounced exactly like trayat least in the UK; in other words, the final -t is or was supposed to be silent.

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How to pronounce trait

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Philip Argy says. We are both English in our late 40s. Think of the size and expense of dictionaries!

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How to pronounce trait

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These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'trait.

In the USA—perhaps oddly in view of its later history—the standard spelling was aluminium right from the start. We Yanks, of course, cringe by boasting. I could easily be mis-hearing it. The Collins is excellent, both as a general resource I really like its extensive proper-name entries, with pronunciations and for specifically Australian usages. So how about elephant? Right, of course. The -ss- suggests a Catalan origin rather than Castilian. January First-of-May says. I favour the randomness hypothesis, in this instance and generally. The word in the example sentence does not match the entry word.