phonological similarity III: 7
When pronounced with my regional accent 7 sounds like:
SE’vUUUUURRRRRRRn
The River Severn is Britains longest river and local to my formative youth. It has the 2nd highest tidal rise and fall in the world and helps constrain splushy fraternization between the English and Welsh. The name Severn is published all-over-the-house, in folklore stories, on road signs, businesses, bridges ”anna loik‘ (regional pronunciation). The once local ‘Severn Trent’ water authority was purchased by an US company during the Thatcherite sell-offs of British publicly owned resources. It now has research sites on the Columbia River in Tri-Cities, WA.
When pronounced with my regional accent Severn sounds like:
SE’vUUUUURRRRRRRn
This marvellous river is responsible for many numerical spelling errors that I loyally persist to this day.
7 = Severn
On the positive side:
- None of my Cheques have bounced… ….yet.
- To help local USians understand me I can ‘awmows tawk praahpaaaah’
Wendy Spelling-pronunciation-atrocity-perpetrator
