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EyeSeeYou Posted 20 years ago
Speech & Pronunciation

preposition OF

Does 'of' have only one way of pronouncing it, with a 'v' sound at the end? Or are there any other ways depending on the words that come after it?
  

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Hi ICU, I think it's usually pronounced uh-v , any other pronunciation would be strange, IMO. I'm not sure, but maybe I once heard something like off , that is, with an f instead of a v. Maybe I heard it in some audio file, searching some archive for pronunciation samples.

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  • Hi ICU, I think it's usually pronounced uh-v , any other pronunciation would be strange, IMO.
  • I'm not sure, but maybe I once heard something like off , that is, with an f instead of a v.
  • Maybe I heard it in some audio file, searching some archive for pronunciation samples.
  • If ever I heard it, I guess it was some kind of British accent or even a foreign accent.
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Hi ICU,
I think it's usually pronounced uh-v, any other pronunciation would be strange, IMO. I'm not sure, but maybe I once heard something like off, that is, with an f instead of a v. Maybe I heard it in some audio file, searching some archive for pronunciation samples. If ever I heard it, I guess it was some kind of British accent or even a foreign accent.
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It is always pronounced with a "v" sound.
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Certain dialects in the Upper Midwest with a German substratum will sometimes devoice final consonants, therefore 'of' would sound something like [ @f ] rather than [ @v ]
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0 01i00of02i00 always has the 'v' sound at the end except in (typically faster) informal conversation, where the 'v' is sometimes dropped when the following word begins with a consonant, 'of' then being identical in sound to the word 'a'.02br
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01i00Help! Help! An alligator's got a hold of me! (a hold a me)02br
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