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[Opinions] Re: Honour or Ona?
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How do you pronounce them then??!
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Well seeing as one has an "r" on the end and one doesn't, it seems obvious, but....Honour: like the word honor/honour, "AH-norr"Ona: looks like OH-nah, could be like Ana = AH-nahOr if one is from Boston, he or she might say the word honor so it sounds like AH-nah, but I don't see that as the usual pronunciation.
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It's an accent thing - Catherine is British. As an Australian I can see what she means!:-)
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Really? I can't imagine a British or Australian person saying Honour/Ona the same, but hell, I live in Florida so what do I know? LOL :bI guess the Bostonian would make the -our into an -ah sound, and the Brit/Australian might do the opposite. That makes sense, I guess.
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The word 'Honour' we say 'On-er'
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So you say Ona the same way, On-er?????? There's no "R" in it.
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