Re: The "u" and "v" in older written English is confvsing

"Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:ej4x64pn23o4$.ba5k2ygb2p4j$.dlg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Sat, 17 May 2008 03:00:08 +0100, Richard Wordingham
<jrw0602@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
<news:U_qXj.15453$U61.4618@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> in sci.lang:

A great many English speakers do not know how to pronounce
"won" - they pronounce it with a short 'o'. (I was
going to write '/wA.n/ or equivalent', but that is
probably less clear a statement.)

Where? I don't think that I've ever heard a native speaker
do this.

Certainly in England. I don't know whether the distribution parallels the pronunciation of _one_ as /wA.n/ - that pronunciation is supposed to be commoner in Northern England.

Richard.

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