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Originally Posted by Kingswood
I knew the correct pronunciations of "squirrel" because I had recently looked them up in a pronunciation dictionary (Longman's) as a part of a recent discussion on the pronunciation of "squirrel" and "stirrup" on a linguistics forum.
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Am I following this correctly?
AE: Stur-rup
BE: Steer-up
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(This is why "hurry" and "furry" rhyme for many Americans but not for British speakers.)
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I'm not getting how these two words would be spoken differently by a British speaker.