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Inspired by [livejournal.com profile] forthright I thought I'd ask some questions about English pronunciation. How do you pronounce the following:

[Poll #663848]

Date: 2006-01-31 06:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dyddgu.livejournal.com
I answer with reservations, as I say Med-i-Sin!

Date: 2006-01-31 06:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] helianthas.livejournal.com
Some of my other favorites are "roof" or "ruhf", "creek" or "crick", and my old favorite, "Flahrida ahranges" or "Floorida ooranges"?

Date: 2006-01-31 06:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] helianthas.livejournal.com
It would be interesting to do this survey with location associated with the answers, as well...

Date: 2006-01-31 06:41 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] nanila
Slough

Depends on whether you're talking about the shedding of dead tissue or the place, innit.

Date: 2006-01-31 06:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lemur-catta.livejournal.com
I have the feeling I've never said 'subsidence' aloud. I've read it, obviously. I've said subsist,subsidy,subside.... I say sus-tin-ence, not sus-tayn-ence if that's indicative of anything.....

Date: 2006-01-31 06:56 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] gillo
As my first thought was the town Betjeman summoned bombs onto, I rhymed "Slough" with "thou". But if you mean "to shed", it would be "sluff".

Date: 2006-01-31 07:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com
I also pronounce Slough all three ways -- Despond and the town are the same, the pond/ditch/bogs at home are slews, and exfoliation-related things are sluff. Most of my other pronunciations are US Murcan, though, and mostly coastal California. I would still have understood any of the pronunciations.

Some of my faves are Off-en Of-ten, Sa-mon Sall-mon, Los An-jel-es Los An-gle-ees (which is a clear indicator that an anglo person was raised in LA in the first half of the last century), spe-shul-ty spe-see-AL-i-ty ...

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