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.


 * 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% &mdash; 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.


 * 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. &mdash; Hippietrail 23:16, 15 Apr 2004 (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*?

Thank yous??
Shouldn't the entry say that 'thank yous' is slang and not normaly used?
 * 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. A LGRIF  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)