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deird1 ([personal profile] deird1) wrote2018-05-23 03:12 pm
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random language factoid

Reading 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.)
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