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Drago
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While listening to Jethro Tull?
The Pronunciation Thread
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While listening to Jethro Tull?
Moon bunny
Judging your grammar
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Cumbrian, yan (1) and wun (succeeded)
Alex321
Guru
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- South Wales
A recent post on Faceache insisted that 'one' and 'won' aren't homophones. When I challenged her for evidence, she responded 'my ears'.
They aren't
To me, they have always sounded different sound different.
"One" actually sounds rather the way you might expect "won" to sound if you didn't l know better, while "won" actually sounds like "wun".
But according to most online sources, they should be the same, with "one" being pronounced the way I pronounce "won".
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/english/won
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/english/one
To me, that feels wrong, pronouncing "one" as "wun" seems like a purely regional pronunciation.
[EDIT]
After reading later posts, it seems quite a few people (including John Major) pronounce "one" the way I do.
gbb
Squire
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- Peterborough
I was watching a YT video about a reservoir in Northants the other day, the lady narrating pronounced reservoir..something like reservor'ier. It was such an abomination I could even repeat it how she did it 
lazybloke
Ginger biscuits and cheddar
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I do know a bloke that says "one" so it rhymes with "on", but he's the only one.
The links sound identical.
Alex321
Guru
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- South Wales
Yes, as I said, most online sources say they sound the same, and the two links showed that.
I can't honestly say I can recall anybody saying "one" to rhyme with bun. It may be that some have, but I just haven't noticed, but certainly most people I know pronounce it to rhyme with gone.
lazybloke
Ginger biscuits and cheddar
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- Leafy Surrey
I'll have to listen more closely, as that's not my perception at all.
Of course, what people say, and what my ears hear aren't necessarily in sync*, particularly as I seem to have the same audio decoding issue that son was diagnosed with.
* In exactly the same way that drivers look but often fail to see
Hommelbier
New Member
I love the way the Irish drop the h in 'th' so that, for example, Edward III now becomes Edward the turd
Hommelbier
New Member
We recently spent some time in a village in Herefordshire called Ewyas Harold - still never found out the correct pronunciation.
VinSumRox
Senior Member
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- Scottish Borders
And Hawick
DaveReading
Don't suffer fools gladly (must try harder!)
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- Reading, obvs
"There were these tree fellers ... "
glasgowcyclist
Charming but somewhat feckless
- Location
- Scotland
In the Kilmarnock area, yin (rhymes with bin) and won (rhymes with bun).
rjsterry
Well-Known Member
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- South London
Weirdly some of them collect these dropped hs and reinsert them in other words, so stair treads become stair threads.
glasgowcyclist
Charming but somewhat feckless
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- Scotland
There’s a Scottish presenter by the name of Paul Murton, who does various programmes about Scotland’s lochs, hills and rivers and has the strangest pronunciation of words containing the letter O.
He always pronounces it as an open O so that, for example, programme is said as prAWgramme and not prOHgramme. Or Queen VictAWria. He’s the only person I’ve ever heard do this.
It’s really distracting!
He always pronounces it as an open O so that, for example, programme is said as prAWgramme and not prOHgramme. Or Queen VictAWria. He’s the only person I’ve ever heard do this.
It’s really distracting!
twentysix by twentyfive
Clinging on tightly
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- Over the Hill
"Whale Oil Beef Hooked" does get pronounced differently sometimes
