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# Heh.
All our vowel sounds change depending on where you are in the country anyway, so even if we did use fancy extra letters we'd just spend all our time arguing about how they're meant to sound.
(, Tue 28 Feb 2006, 21:42, archived)
# yeah
that's why we foreigners usually restrict ourselves to BBC pronounciation, or GA.

we did learn about some oddities like the glottal stop and suchlike
(, Tue 28 Feb 2006, 21:45, archived)
# :)
(, Tue 28 Feb 2006, 21:47, archived)
# ha ha
that's brilliant!
I'll have to show it to my phonetics teacher

(, Tue 28 Feb 2006, 21:53, archived)
# You're welcome
(, Tue 28 Feb 2006, 21:57, archived)
# never thought of how totally illogical some english words are
I'm glad I learnt it at a young age
aparently I taught myself the english language.
one day when I was five or six they found me talking to an american girl the same age. Must have picked it up from the telly....
(, Tue 28 Feb 2006, 22:04, archived)
# Ha!
Trying to learn Welsh, with old English letters now used as vowels : "w" sounds like "oo" in look.

The tutor thinks Welsh in a 'souf lundun' accent is hilarious.
(, Tue 28 Feb 2006, 22:08, archived)