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Wouldn’t they pronounce both won and one as waan
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Wouldn’t they pronounce both won and one as waan
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Drago
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Only when commentating the football.
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Waan suspected that.
robjh
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John Major had (and AFAIK still has) an unusual pronunciation of 'one', to rhyme with don not done. I don't know how he pronounces 'won'. Even stranger, he grew up near me but 10 years older, and that certainly wasn't usual around there. I did know one other person who did this, and he blamed it on his parents coming from Birmingham - don't know how relevant that really was!
Dogtrousers
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My accent is vaguely Midlands overlaid with decades of living in London. I perceive them as different.
Won (ie winned) = wun. We wun the cup, what fun.
One (ie a single item)= won. Won bonbon has gone.
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Drago
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You'd speak different too if you'd been having it away with Edwina Currie!
Gwylan
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Quite spoiled my evening that picture.
Sterlo
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This has started my bugbear with BBC English again. I come from Hull, rhymes with bull and full, not Haall as BBC announcers seem to pronounce it.
Beebo
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I have the same pronunciation.
I grew up in Surrey and everyone at school would laugh at my pronunciation of one (won), they expected it to be wun.
But my parents are from Derbyshire and Huntingdonshire, so I picked up their accent for that word. Which is one (won) of the first words you ever learn.
Beebo
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This has started my bugbear with BBC English again. I come from Hull, rhymes with bull and full, not Haall as BBC announcers seem to pronounce it.
But what about the isle of Mull?
Sterlo
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What about the Isle of Mull, I assume it's the same as Hull/bull/full, but they may pronounce it differently. I've probably annoyed anyone from around here anyway because it should be 'Ull (the H is rarely used ere)
Dogtrousers
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I'm off out to impress the Yorkshire seabirds in the islands.
I'm hoping to pull a gull from Hull on the Isle of Mull.
I'm hoping to pull a gull from Hull on the Isle of Mull.
Beebo
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Are you full of bull?
robjh
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Board and bored. Same or different pronunciation for you, and where are you from?
To start : to me they have slightly different vowels. I'm from outer South London, 1960s vintage. My wife is from elsewhere in London but has the same pronunciations as me, which I think is quite common in the south east. However, a lot of general descriptions of English pronunciation have them as the same.
To start : to me they have slightly different vowels. I'm from outer South London, 1960s vintage. My wife is from elsewhere in London but has the same pronunciations as me, which I think is quite common in the south east. However, a lot of general descriptions of English pronunciation have them as the same.
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I am not bothered in the least when people with different regional accents pronounce the same words differently, nor even when people pronounce e.g. Cholmondely as Chumley or Ralph as Rafe or Featherstonehaugh as Fanshawe.
Makes the language more interesting.
Makes the language more interesting.
