Why does it matter so long as we know what the person is trying to communicate? I know some pronunciation sets your teeth in edge but surely that's the listener's problem. My problem continually😒
I lived for a few years in Cambridgeshire. A woman I worked with was married to a man named Hugh. She'd learned to call him "Hyoo" but other locals called him "Hoo", consistent with pronouncing "few" as "foo", etc...
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
In my family dinner was the main meal whether it was in the evening or at lunch time. Lunch was in the middle of the day if dinner was in the evening and supper was in the evening if dinner was at 1pm. Tea was a cup of tea and a biscuit or a slice of cake after school or between 4 and 5pm. When I was a child supper was a bit earlier and called high tea, beans on toast, scrambled eggs, herring roes on toast etc.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
We had a primary school teacher who made sure that no one in the class would dare say noos instead of neeyews. We were also not allowed to start sentences in our diary with 'on'. 'During' featured a lot.
@tui34 to be completely honest, I copied the title of the mail into my email search bar to select all the related mail (as there were quite a few!) and it said did I mean 'pronunciation'. I didn't actually spot it.....
@tui34 to be completely honest, I copied the title of the mail into my email search bar to select all the related mail (as there were quite a few!) and it said did I mean 'pronunciation'. I didn't actually spot it.....
That sounds like a 'Boris' to me. Make a mistake, say it wasn't your fault a mistake was made and you are not responsible for the mistake - if a mistake was actually made, which may not be the case.
Another word which seems to be pronounced differently these days is "Privacy". I have always know it as Priv-acy whereas now it's pronounced Prive-acy. Wonder who decides that a change is in order.
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That sounds like a 'Boris' to me. Make a mistake, say it wasn't your fault a mistake was made and you are not responsible for the mistake - if a mistake was actually made, which may not be the case.
How about nougat? Noo gar or nugget?