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Yeah, you just described the kind of "roping in" of multiple dialects that make me worry that trying to define pronunciation in English is impossible. I have f
by softfalcon 5y ago
Yeah, you just described the kind of "roping in" of multiple dialects that make me worry that trying to define pronunciation in English is impossible.
I have friends who are Welsh, I have friends who are Australian, my background is Scottish, Irish, and Estuary English.
You learn very quickly that everyone has completely different ways of saying things and that you have to accept it. I can't imagine trying to define all of them, it's utter chaos.
- bobthepanda 5y agoOutside of mass media there isn't very strong standardization of pronunciation. Linguistics is a spectrum, and occasionally society decides to totally upturn how they want to pronounce things, like in the Great Vowel Shift: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift