Why using <descent cup of coffee>?
In Friends, Ross said: Man, I don't wanna have to have Joey with me every time I wanna descent cup of coffee.
The question is why using descent, I can imagine that the coffee is falling down into your stomach, it means 'drink', but why not using the other words like have, fall or drop?
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That's the pronunciation you heard, but that's not how you spell the word. He says a "decent" cup of coffee. It means satisfactory, acceptable, tasty.
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I recommend that you look up the words "decent" and "descent" in a dictionary like Oxford or Collins, and listen to the audios. If you listen carefully, you should hear these differences:
a) main stress is on "de" in "decent", and "scent" in descent"
b) first vowel sound in "decent" is long /iː/; first vowel sound in "descent" is short /ɪ/
c) second vowel sound in "decent" is schwa /ə/; second vowel sound in "descent" is /e/
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