Talk:thank you

Thankyou

I could not find "thankyou" (no space) in any other dictionary, and a web search via google found only URLs where it was spelled "Thank you" within the page, and a very few places where "thank-you" was meant. Unless this is a recient development somewhere other than in the US, I think it's a misspelling. — This unsigned comment was added by Długosz (talk • contribs) at 22:49, 15 April 2004.

I know traditional dictionaries always give it as two words or hyphenated but I see the single-word form used extensively. Google groups has 464,000 occurences which is about 10% — Hippietrail 22:56, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)

I did the search of web pages, not newsgroups. The latter are sloppier and contain typos and no proofreading. — This unsigned comment was added by Długosz (talk • contribs) at 23:10, 15 April 2004.

And actual current usage. It's a great source if we're trying to be a descriptive rather than prescriptive dictionary. Most typos etc don't rank in the hundreds of thousands. People are consciously spelling it this way. — Hippietrail 23:16, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Personally it makes more sense to me. It's a particularly obvious lexeme, the word "thank" occurs more frequently in this compound than outside it. It doesn't make grammatical sense as two seperate words, and the extended form "thank you very much" makes even less sense grammatically. Prosodically, it is often (including in the example audio) pronounced with the /ŋ/ as the quietest and least sonorous sound, implying that the /k/ is actually part of the second syllable, so it would really make more sense to spell it "than kyou" than "thank you". -- 86.19.177.252 10:34, 14 October 2024 (UTC)

thanks a bunch

I'm a UK first language English user. I'm not sure I'd ever use or have ever seen the use of "thanks a bunch" except in an sarcastic "that wasn't very helpful" sense. -- pbhj 89.240.176.110 13:42, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

Do UK first language English users still say *ta*? — This unsigned comment was added by 216.37.220.169 (talk) at 18:05, 26 April 2009.

Thank yous??

Shouldn't the entry say that 'thank yous' is slang and not normaly used? — This unsigned comment was added by 203.26.235.14 (talk) at 12:58, 26 October 2009.

Thank yous is in fact quite common and easy to find uses in Google books. "I'm going to read a few telegrams and say a few thank-yous. Then Sarah, Katie's best woman, is going to stand up and tell crude stories and offensive jokes ..." As a quickly found example. ALGRIF talk 13:55, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

The US audio sounds a bit strange

There's almost an /m/ at the end, isn't there...? Thamk youm. Equinox ◑ 03:52, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

The speaker opened his nasal passage for the n in thank and did not bother to close it afterwards: /θãk.ỹʊ̃/. Sloppy speech. It might be standard somewhere in the U.S., but I don’t know where. The nasal passage should be closed as expected. —Stephen ^(Talk) 01:02, 14 June 2016 (UTC)

(ˈhæ)ŋk ju

According to the Longman Pronunciation Dictionary, there are also casual forms such as ˈhæŋk ju, ˈŋk ju --Backinstadiums (talk) 23:50, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

Tank you

(I am not a native speaker.) Why in the movies, and I think here in the soundclips as well, is heared tank you, as well as tanks? --Manfariel (talk) 23:58, 23 July 2020 (UTC)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th-stopping 86.19.177.252 10:16, 14 October 2024 (UTC)