Thread: Accent-o-meter
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Old 03-23-2012, 09:29 AM   #11
DanaC
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Originally Posted by infinite monkey View Post
Dawn---awning--lawn---pawn

Don---Jon--bon-bon--

Soooooooooooooo different. I hear people call women named Dawn DON.

Sounds dumb.
Just sounds a different accent to me.

It doesn't matter how many times you show the different pronunciations, if that pair of letters represents that sound in an accent, then that's how the person will read it.
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