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Eipjoo Posted 13 years ago
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[hev],[hed]
. . . had [h?d] . . . have had [h?v] [h?d] . . . have [h?v] . . . have [h?v] . . .
http://audioscraps.tistory.com/137
Might any native pronounce have, had, as [hev],[hed]?
http://audioscraps.tistory.com/137
Might any native pronounce have, had, as [hev],[hed]?
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I have never heard of such a thing. It strikes me as very unlikely. But there are many English accents that I have never heard.
- I have never heard of such a thing.
- It strikes me as very unlikely.
- But there are many English accents that I have never heard.
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I have never heard of such a thing. It strikes me as very unlikely. But there are many English accents that I have never heard.
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The speaker in that clip sounded fine to me, a speaker of BrE. The vowels in unstressed 'have' were in the region of /æ/ and /?/, which is where I would expect them to be. I did not hear /e/.
The pronunciation of 'have' as /hed/ may have been heard from upper-class speakers in the first half of the 20th century, but it's pretty rare today.
The pronunciation of 'have' as /hed/ may have been heard from upper-class speakers in the first half of the 20th century, but it's pretty rare today.
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