Early Cockney vees for double-yous
Dan Goncharoff
thegonch at GMAIL.COM
Thu Jan 2 18:40:28 UTC 2014
A form of hypercorrection for Germans speaking English: in German,
Volkswagen is pronounced "Folksvagen". The Germans have to remember to
replace the 'v' sound of their letter 'w' when speaking English, but often
replace all 'v' sounds, ie, village becomes 'willage'.
DanG
On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 8:25 AM, W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I switch the <v> & <w> in <Volkswagen>. No, wait a minute, that's something
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