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in reply to a message by Llewella
It probably gets pronounced this way by people who are from rural, lack of education or foreigners or those that just don't come across the name often.
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Could it be that phonics would have ph make the f sound and not v sound.
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That wouldn't account for changing the long "e" sound to short. The "ph" and "v" sounds are actually kind of close in sound when saying Stephen and Steven (I mean when pronouncing "proper" "ph" & "v"), but I've never heard Steven said with a short "e". I've always heard Stephen and Steven pronounced the same way, and I knew some of both in school.
This message was edited 2/10/2012, 1:12 PM
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