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Nov 5, 2015 · 2. In Britain, there are a few such place names that rhyme with "South" as commonly spoken (for example Avonmouth, Lossiemouth, Cockermouth), but as far as I can tell they all seem to be where the "-mouth" suffix comes after an unstressed syllable. Most, as with Plymouth, Dartmouth and Bournemouth, are said with a schwa.
- As Michael Broughton observes, the American city is named after the English town, which is pronounced the same way. The first part isn't pronounc...
- We tend to put the stress on the first syllable in many English words, especially place names.[I.e.There are many 'mouths'; Which one? Oh, the one...
- The inhabitants of a town or city use the name of their town or city very often. No wonder that there is a tendency to find a weakened or shortened...
why do people say dirt-Mowth, and not dirt-mith, when plymouth is pronounced pli-mith, and not pli-mowth. did the devs confirm its pronounced…
The geography of English is quite distinct, going all the way back to the Angles, Saxons and Jutes. The South is pretty Saxon, Wessex, Sussex and Essex being the West South and East Saxons. The Jutes were basically Kent and the Isle of Wight, so less relevant to this.
For example, instead of "-mouth" in "Plymouth" being pronounced /maʊθ/, it is pronounced /məθ/. This seems to be the case for most suffixes, like Leicester and Edinburgh. Is there a reason as to why all these suffixes are pronounced weakly?
Jul 19, 2020 · Plymouth. city in Devon, England, named for its location at the mouth of the Plym River; the river is in turn named for Plympton, literally "plum-tree farm." Earlier Plymouth was known as Sutton Prior. The town in Massachusetts, U.S., was named 1620 by immigrants on the "Mayflower," which had sailed from Plymouth, England, and landed at what ...
Jul 22, 2012 · 1.) Theatre (or theater ).*. In General American English and related accents, ‘theatre’ can be pronounced so that it rhymes perfectly with ‘feeder’ ( θiɾɚ ). This contrasts with the pronunciation in British RP (and other non-rhotic Englishes, such as New England) where the first syllable is more of a diphthong lax vowel, almost ...
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