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That reading is pronounced reading and reading is said like reading?
Maybe the people of reading always pronounced it like reading but changed it to sound like reading |
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"That reading is pronounced reading and reading is said like reading?
Maybe the people of reading always pronounced it like reading but changed it to sound like reading"
No comment. I just go with whatever the locals say.
I already ran foul of Leicester when I first moved to the UK in 2000 as a skinny 18-year-old island girl. Called is Leychester...instead of the local LESS-TER. |
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"That reading is pronounced reading and reading is said like reading?
Maybe the people of reading always pronounced it like reading but changed it to sound like reading"
Nottingham is the same. Other people: Not-ing-ham. Local people: Not-N-UM!
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The explanation is the Great Vowel Shift which happened in spoken English from 15th century onwards. This mostly originated in Southern England so Reading would likely have been an early example, the long vowel of 'ea' being shortened in speech to a single 'e'.  |
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"The explanation is the Great Vowel Shift which happened in spoken English from 15th century onwards. This mostly originated in Southern England so Reading would likely have been an early example, the long vowel of 'ea' being shortened in speech to a single 'e'. "
Ummmmm, short vowels and "the south"? Does. Not. Compute! I take a bath. I sit on the grass. Short vowels  |
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"The explanation is the Great Vowel Shift which happened in spoken English from 15th century onwards. This mostly originated in Southern England so Reading would likely have been an early example, the long vowel of 'ea' being shortened in speech to a single 'e'. "
This is distinguishable from the Great Bowel Shift which occcured during the Plague. |
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"The explanation is the Great Vowel Shift which happened in spoken English from 15th century onwards. This mostly originated in Southern England so Reading would likely have been an early example, the long vowel of 'ea' being shortened in speech to a single 'e'.
Ummmmm, short vowels and "the south"? Does. Not. Compute! I take a bath. I sit on the grass. Short vowels "
Southern - a good example of long vowel being shortened. Any complaints to be taken up with the Middle English Dept, please. |
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By *lynJMan
over a year ago
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"The explanation is the Great Vowel Shift which happened in spoken English from 15th century onwards. This mostly originated in Southern England so Reading would likely have been an early example, the long vowel of 'ea' being shortened in speech to a single 'e'.
Ummmmm, short vowels and "the south"? Does. Not. Compute! I take a bath. I sit on the grass. Short vowels
Southern - a good example of long vowel being shortened. Any complaints to be taken up with the Middle English Dept, please. "
But do not take it up with the left or right English departments. |
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"Does anyone do the 'full moon, half moon, total eclipse' joke when eating jaffa cakes?
I don't eat them but still totally would  "
The only thing people should do with Jaffa cakes is…
Put them straight in the bin |
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The UK has always had many dialects and local pronunciations. Use by thousands of people, over generations and especially when most couldn't read or write, meant that pronunciations were king.
The first dictionary - Johnson - was fairly recent. Again from a time when it would have been lost on the masses, who couldn't read it. Spellings have changed and continue to evolve. The same with pronunciations. The power of the people |
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