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Pronunciations
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27 Jul 2009, 23:00
~RedFraggle~
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English thing again (rather than British)... I say our like it's written (similar to 'hour').
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27 Jul 2009, 23:02
Estella
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I SAY IT LIKE 'HOUR' TOO, YO. ALTHOUGH MY 'HOUR' MIGHT BE DIFFERENT FROM YOURS. I SAY 'OW-UH'. I IMAGINE YOU SAY 'OW-UR'?
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28 Jul 2009, 10:42
Transit
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Haha yes, I say hour the same as our, but probably say hour different to redfrag
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28 Jul 2009, 10:42
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Haha yes, I say hour the same as our, but probably say hour different to redfrag
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27 Jul 2009, 16:56
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I do the o shape both times :)

So, is awe more owh?
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27 Jul 2009, 17:10
.Amber.
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Kind of! Depends on who's saying it, I think. Some people put more of an oh sound in it. Mine is very uhaweee kinda lol
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28 Jul 2009, 12:01
Estella
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THERE ARE SOME AMERICANS FOR WHOM 'CAUGHT' AND 'COT' SOUND EXACTLY THE SAME.
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29 Jul 2009, 22:47
serendipity.
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Mine sound the same!
How are they pronounced differently?
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29 Jul 2009, 22:57
Estella
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WELL, 'COT' IS PRONOUNCED WITH AN ENGLISH 'O' SOUND.

'CAUGHT' IS PRONOUNCED WITH AN AWE/OR SOUND, AND RHYMES WITH: 'FOUGHT', 'OUGHT', 'BOUGHT', 'PORT', 'SORT', ETC.

THE VOWEL SOUND IN 'CAUGHT' IS LONGER THAN THE VOWEL SOUND IN 'COT', AND THE BACK OF THE MOUTH SLIGHTLY MORE CLOSED AND TIGHTER.
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29 Jul 2009, 23:10
wugs
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Your 'port' rhymes with 'caught'? This I must hear! And when I tried to make 'sort' rhyme it came out as 'sought'. Do those sound the same to you (sort and sought)?
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29 Jul 2009, 23:13
serendipity.
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I am curious how caught rhymes with port and sort? Haha, but my cot sound the same as "fought" and "ought" and "caught", so I'm not sure of the difference. xD

People tell me I have an accent though and I don't hear it. One of my friends laughed at how I pronounced a word because I pronounced the "a" sound differently than he did. But I didn't understand how I was pronouncing it differently.
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30 Jul 2009, 22:33
Lauren.
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Accent. You has one.
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27 Jul 2009, 16:43
Acid Fairy
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I say 'roar' for raw too.
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27 Jul 2009, 22:30
Estella
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YES, YO - ENGLISH PEOPLE SAY 'LITRALLEE' (SOME MAY REMEMBER THE INFAMOUS PUCK-HATING ENGLISH BLOOPER WHO WOULD ALWAYS SPELL IT 'LITRALI'! ;D). AMERICANS PUT IN A LOT OF SYLLABLES THAT ARE SILENT HERE, YO. ODDLY, FOR MANY WORDS, THE POSHER THE ACCENT, THE FEWER THE SYLLABLES.
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27 Jul 2009, 23:00
~RedFraggle~
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Even the Scots do that one. ;)
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27 Jul 2009, 16:24
just samma;
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like straw without the s.
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27 Jul 2009, 22:16
Estella
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YOU CAN TOTALLY GO ONTO MERRIAM-WEBSTER WEBSITE AND LISTEN TO THE AMERICAN PRONUNCIATIONS, YO!

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/STORE

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/STRAW

CLICK THE RED THING AND YOU HEAR IT BEING SAID.
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27 Jul 2009, 22:21
Estella
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AMERICANS TOTALLY SAY 'SQUIRL' FOR 'SQUIRREL', YO!
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27 Jul 2009, 22:44
-kay
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I was watching a video recently in which two friends, one British and one American, were both saying "aluminum."
How do you pronounce it? We pronounce is like "uh-loo-min-um" and he pronounced it like "a-lim-in-yum."
Is that usual?
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27 Jul 2009, 22:55
~RedFraggle~
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Lol. I remember having this exact same discussion with a couple of Americans who we met in New Zealand 9 years ago!

Brits say al-u-min-ee-um. I do believe it's actually spelt differently too though. We spell it aluminium.
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27 Jul 2009, 22:55
Hayley McBayley
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I'm British and I say it how the man on this website says aluminium.

http://www.howjsay.com/index.php?word=aluminium
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27 Jul 2009, 23:03
Estella
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OH - LOOK, YO! NOW ACID FAIRY CAN USE THAT SITE TO LOOK UP 'DRAWING' AND HEAR IT SAID WITH A 'W'.
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27 Jul 2009, 22:55
Estella
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YES, YO! WE HAVE AN EXTRA 'I' IN IT (AND APPARENTLY OURS IS NOW ACCEPTED AS THE INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC SPELLING, AFTER MUCH DEBATE).
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27 Jul 2009, 23:01
~RedFraggle~
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Of course. ;)
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28 Jul 2009, 08:29
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al-u-min-ium
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