Re: The "u" and "v" in older written English is confvsing
- From: "John Atkinson" <johnacko@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 15:46:02 GMT
"Richard Wordingham" <jrw0602@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote...
"Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote...Richard Wordingham <jrw0602@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.
Surely in northern England they're both /wUn/ (since the STRUT/FOOT split didn't take place there). Except for people who are trying to acquire a near-RP accent, of course, who I suppose may well approximate RP /V/ using [A.], since they don't have [V] in their local dialect. Are these the people you're thinking of?
John.
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