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napster
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phonetic
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hey help me with this
says [sez] and pays [peiz] is it correct ? why one sounds sez and another sounds peiz?
thanks in futurize |
11 Dec 2010
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libertybelle
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Language is a living thing and changes with time and usage.
Some call it the corruption of language.
Different cultures meet - and change happens
I know some Brits say "says" almost rhyming with "pays".
Says was pronounced with a longer A once upon a time.
(and probably still is, somewhere in the world)
That is reason I read for English being so "non-phonetic".
Once words were probably pronounced as they were spelled -
but not anymore.
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11 Dec 2010
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elprofe55
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Hello,
Commonly British people pronounced the word says in this way : /sez/, but some of them pronounced it /saiz/.
Obviously, we are supposed to use the first one! /sez/ |
11 Dec 2010
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moravc
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I pronounce it both ways to startle my students :-)
I was taught "saiz" by my mother and "sez" by my teachers :-DD
I have heard "saiz" quite often while staying in Birmingham...
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11 Dec 2010
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