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In South Chicago for example, 'over there' becomes 'over by dere'
Even in America we can't pick pronunciation ...
-- Ron
povray.org admin team wrote in message
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>Ken <tyl### [at] pacbell net> wrote:
>
>>David Greaves wrote:
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>>> If you look at it, even the letter Z (pronounced zed of course) is
arrogant.
>>> All those angles and straight lines.
>>
>>"Pronounced zed" ?
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>Yep. The English way of saying the letter 'z' is 'zed'. Americans (and
American
>influenced countries) say 'zee'.
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>There's a bunch of other stuff, too. Most of them relate to Americans
>'simplifying' words or sounds to make them either easier to pronounce, or
>easier to say. Hence colour becomes color, Aluminium becomes Aluminum, and
so
>forth.
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