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the-busy-ghost · 2 years ago

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No disrespect to the particular English accent that birthed this atrocity, we all have our own sins to atone for, but as a Scot I’m tempted to accuse google of perpetrating a hate crime by describing this monstrous mispronunciation as the correct “British” one

#The American pronunciation is scarcely better but at least they are capable of pronouncing the letter 'r'#I'm aware the Irish may wish to start a fight about the pronunciation of the 'gh' sound which I would generally render similar to ch in loch #But breathier #I'm aware that a lot of people pronounce it Gallaher though so possibly the 'ch' sound is an inaccurate Scotticism in its own way #However I would at least submit that that is closer than whatever nonsense the home counties have come out with #And obviously there will be regional variations on pronunciation anyway it's just when it gets this extreme that it becomes almost insulting #The Liverpudlians probably have their own distinct pronunciation which you could argue over but at least that's debatable #This Estuary English version on the other hand shouldn't even count as a viable regional pronunciation #Ergo it should not be listed as the standard British pronunciation #But I could get into a long argument about how one regional accent has been elevated over the others as the standard British English #Even though it probably has more bizarre pronunciations in it than something from the North of England or Scotland or Wales #Nothing new though #After all even James VI had to complain about the way the way English people pronounced Latin #Regional accents and dialects are totally valid but you can't elevate one as a 'standard' version if it's all wrong

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