Re: Standard RP pronunciation of "often"?
- From: "eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <howdouno@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:39:07 -0000
As American, I found this discussion quite informative. Thank you.
On Jun 1, 2:18 pm, zhengquan <zhang.zhengq...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jun 1, 4:33 pm, Richard Polhill
<richard.n...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Mike Stevens wrote:
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! :-)
The question is not what do you say, but what is RP. That is, if one took
elocution lessons, what pronunciation would be taught?
I agree with this point.
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