random language factoid
May. 23rd, 2018 03:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deird1Reading kids books has made me notice something about US English that otherwise wouldn’t have occurred to me.
Namely: you guys pronounce “squirrel” and “toward” as though they have one syllable, not two.
(The rhymes in kids books have a very weird scansion if I read them in my accent.)
Namely: you guys pronounce “squirrel” and “toward” as though they have one syllable, not two.
(The rhymes in kids books have a very weird scansion if I read them in my accent.)