Re: Standard RP pronunciation of "often"?

Molly Mockford wrote:

Other words that spring to mind with similar issues are "medicine"
and "clothes".
My wife pronounces them "meds'n" and "close", but I pronounce them
as "medis'n" and "clothes" (with the dh sound).

Nowadays I tend to say "medication" rather than "medicine" (media influence,
I quess).

I'm with you on that. I also pronounce the first N in "government",
the first R in "February" and both the I and A in "parliament"
(instead of "parlyment".

I do both of these.

On the other hand, I happily say
"Wedensday" instead of "Wednesday".

I'm afraid I say "Wensdy" - probably my London ancestry coming through.

Wouldn't it be boring if we all spoke precisely the same!

Almost as boring as if we all used the same spellings! :-)


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