I lived in Berkshire for years so I was peer pressured into doing it all “properly”.
Who defines the 'proper' pronunciation of a word. Just because it's the way it is said in one part of the country, does that make that version correct and all others wrong? The old BBC 'Received pronunciation' doesn't sound like anything I heard in 'real life'.
I've always heard walnut pronounced wallnut in this part of the country. Was only when speaking to a friend from the North about the tree were were looking at he said it was a wal-nut and of course he's right.
Then there's fye-nance and fin-ance. I always use the latter. Auction - okshun or oarkshun? I dare not mention scones - oops
Complicated innit 😁
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Ma insisted that it was ‘ospital and ‘otel with silent ‘H’s because they were really French words. To sound the ‘H’ showed a lack of education… apparently … if you were schooled by nuns in Luton anyway 🤣
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
For me the u in bury is like the u in bun (or nun, to get marginally back on-topic), rhyming with slurry (but not blurry, isn't English grand?). Berry rhymes with merry and Jerry.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
I remember when my parents first got a television, when I was about 4 years old, and they put on Play School for me. My mother got quite cross because the presenter said baaarth instead of bath with a short a.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
And to complicate things further, the town Bury is pronounced differently again - it just about rhymes with "furry" if you say "furry" quickly... I thought English was unique in having such complicated pronunciation, but now I'm trying (and failing) to learn Irish, which is worse, if anything.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
My daughter liked to watch Watch With Mother even though it was in black and , and decades out of date. She picked up some awfully posh pronunciation. 'Ooh Endy Pendy!' You should've heard her say 'toast' ! She'd have put the queen to shame!
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Who defines the 'proper' pronunciation of a word. Just because it's the way it is said in one part of the country, does that make that version correct and all others wrong? The old BBC 'Received pronunciation' doesn't sound like anything I heard in 'real life'.
...which links nicely to the nappies and so called 'joke'. I'm minded of Catherine Tate's Nan character -'worra load of ol' sh*t'....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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Was only when speaking to a friend from the North about the tree were were looking at he said it was a wal-nut and of course he's right.
Then there's fye-nance and fin-ance. I always use the latter.
Auction - okshun or oarkshun?
I dare not mention scones - oops
Complicated innit 😁
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Ahlmonds or awlmonds or ammonds?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.