[BITList] Horrors and pleasures of mispronunciations and malapropisms.

[michael J Feltham]

Hugh,

Many years ago I had the benefit of Scottish education for about 4 years , when John and I left Scotland I was quite a bit in advance of the English pupils of my age, since then I’ve gone a little backwards !

Mike
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> On 6 Dec 2017, at 14:55, HUGH <chakdara at btinternet.com> wrote:
> 
> Mike,
>  
> Up here, rain notwithstanding, we pronounce Leslie as Leslie, and alway have.  But we mostly always pronounce "the" as "thee" when it preceedes a vowel.
>  
> Hugh.
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