So why don't people in Yorkshire pronounce "bus" the same as in London or New Zealand for that matter. Yes. We all have our accents and pronunciation is different.
We say London. The French say Londres. The Italians say Londra etc and so forth and so on. Why don't they just say London and get on with it?
So why do you say keen oh-wa? Shouldn't that be qwin-oh-wa? Pretentious? Evidement pas!
Using New Zealanders as an example of pronunciation is pushing it a bit. Most of the Kiwi's I've ever spoken to seem to use the wrong sound for every vowel. It does make the accent easy to identify though.
Luckily, I had been brought up to hear the pronunciation of place names such as Dalziel, Buccleuch and Cockburn before I went to live in Scotland. 😊 I love to listen to the shipping forecast readers take a run at Ardnamurchan Point. Some just pronounce it with a K while others go out of their way to get the CH but in doing so seem to spray the entire studio in spittle. 😁
Many years ago I heard a radio presenter say the prize winner lived in Kirk Cud Bright, Kirk Cud Bright Shire. I suspect the rest of the people in the studio were wetting themselves laughing.
Take pity on the poor Americans visiting our shores. They tend to pronounce names phonetically, as in Dianne War Wick. They then come to town and cities where part of the name is silent such as Gloucester - Gloster, Worcester - Wooster. They think they've cracked it until they visit Cirencester!
I remember a very angry Australian who had spent ages wandering around Kent looking for Root ham Wrotham. I didn't mention the many weird pronunciations available in her own country.
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And many of them the speak better English than the native population too.
Using New Zealanders as an example of pronunciation is pushing it a bit. Most of the Kiwi's I've ever spoken to seem to use the wrong sound for every vowel. It does make the accent easy to identify though.
Many years ago I heard a radio presenter say the prize winner lived in Kirk Cud Bright, Kirk Cud Bright Shire. I suspect the rest of the people in the studio were wetting themselves laughing.