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Enoon Posted 13 years ago
Speech & Pronunciation
Southwark
How do you pronounce that? The examples at Forvo are from non-rhotic Londoners, and my ears not being what they were, I can't tell if the r is having any effect at all. Would a rhotic speaker put an r in there?
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k/. The first pronunciation is more common for Southwick, the second for Southwark. As these are the pronunciations used by everybody who knows these places, anyone inserting an /r/ in Southwark would sound very strange.
- k/.
- The first pronunciation is more common for Southwick, the second for Southwark.
- As these are the pronunciations used by everybody who knows these places, anyone inserting an /r/ in Southwark would sound very strange.
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In BrE, both Southwick (Hampshire) and Southwark (London) are pronounced /'s?ð?k/ or /'s?ð?k/. The first pronunciation is more common for Southwick, the second for Southwark.
As these are the pronunciations used by everybody who knows these places, anyone inserting an /r/ in Southwark would sound very strange.
As these are the pronunciations used by everybody who knows these places, anyone inserting an /r/ in Southwark would sound very strange.
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