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Subject: Re: regional homonyms - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 21-Sep-83 23:51:15 EDT
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uicsl!ashwin    Sep 21 14:50:00 1983

In parts of Britain, "our", "hour" and "are" would both be pronounced "aar".
Some people, however, pronounce "our" and "hour" with two syllables as
"ah-wer", leaving "are" to be "aar".  Some pronounce "hour" as "ah-wer", and
both "our" and "are" as "aar". In most parts of U.S.A., the "ah" changes to
"a", as in "aunt" ("ahnt" vs. "ant").

Ashwin Ram

Coordinated Science Lab
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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