I have looked up the pronunciation of these two words, ancient and conscience, in the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary as well as other online dictionaries such as dictionary.com and dictionary.cambridge.org. Their pronunciations are given as /ˈeɪnʃənt/ and /ˈkɒnʃəns/. However, I have heard a lot of American people pronounce them as /ˈeɪntʃənt/ and /ˈkɒntʃəns/, meaning they pronounce the starting sound of the second syllable as /tʃ/ instead of /ʃ/. Is this considered a mispronunciation by some people or is it actually a correct pronunciation in American English?
Ok, see the word "conscious" has the IPA /ˈkɑːnʃəs/ in the   However, when you listen clearly, you will feel like it should be /ˈkɑːntʃəs/ not /ˈkɑːnʃəs/.  So it should read /tʃ/ rather than /ʃ/.  In some other dictionaries, which use different transcription systems, they give the entry "ˈkän(t)-shəs" , for example in the . Here we see it with a /t/.  So, should the IPA for the word "conscious" be /ˈkɑːnʃəs/ or /ˈkɑːntʃəs/?
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Sample is here:   The file is much bigger but I replaced part of the data with "..." to make it shorter.  I need to somehow replace the line ends before "#S" - in fact simply merge the "N" line with the following two ones into one line (or with the following three ones so I can get rid of the blank lines). Expect output like this:  N 12344;PE 9.9999999; #S 0 0 31 44 75 130 165 196 #S_+ "2 5 2 3 3 1 1 2 3 1 2 2... N 12345;PE 9.9999999; #S 0 0 34 57 84 133 152 #S_+ "1 0 1 1 2 3 0 0 0... N 12346;PE 9.9999999; #S 0 0 31 44 73 140 169 #S_+ "3 3 4 0 0 2 1 2 4... N 25104;PE 9.9999999; #S 0 0 36 52 102 108 145 #S_+ "1 1 0 1 0 0 3 0 1... N 25105;PE 9.9999999; #S 0 0 32 58 88 130 143...   Is this possible to achieve using some command-line utility in linux?   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