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Re: like this...
by Yahalome (guest)
2/4/2003, 9:58 PM
in reply to a message by Merriment
In the States: Ree-an-n'n, Rye-an-n'n, R'an-n'n, etc. We drop most of our vowels, or shorten them to an apostrophe.
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- Merriment (guest)   +5
2/5/2003, 3:09 AM
Rye-an-n'n? really?...It's worse than I thought...Then again, I suspect they do that in England too.
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- Eleanor (guest)   +4
2/5/2003, 11:30 AM
No, we generally (then again i live near essex and speak with a BBC accent) would pronounce Rhiannon Ree-ann-on. (no idea where the stress is, not good at that sort of thing.)
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- Eleanor (guest)   +3
2/5/2003, 11:33 AM
or actually, thinking about it, v. like the states' versions.
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- Yahalome (guest)   +2
2/6/2003, 12:10 AM
Yeah, for some reason, a lot of Americans have a tendancy to pronounce y like long i, and vowels in words ending with n get almost dropped. Of course, in the Southern states, _they_ strey-etch their vowels all out of shape! I have/had relatives in Texas, so...lol!
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- Jessica (guest)   +1
2/6/2003, 11:11 AM
I'm from Lower Alabama.
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- Yahalome (guest)
2/11/2003, 5:14 PM
So how would you pronounce it?Sorry, folks, I meant we pronounce 'i' followed by a vowel like long 'i', not 'y'!Y :)
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